The States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones.

“The States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones.”

[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore … never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.

Year: 1823
Context: Letter to Judge William Johnson
Shortlink: http://fq1.us/49c

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Keywords: bought and sold, eyes of the people, foreign, govern, market, offices, secretly, states, Washington