Josiah Tucker Quotes
Americans never can be united into one compact empire, under any species of government whatever. Their fate seems to be -- a disunited people till the end of time.
Josiah Tucker, 1712-1799, British Economist and Writer, c. 1783
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This is a variant of the famous Lincoln quotation, {619494}. Houston did not use the word “house” as had Lincoln but surely, as did Lincoln, was familiar with The Book of Mathew {606727}. Houston however gave his speech BEFORE Lincoln.
Many wonder why Bolivar did not attempt to unify much of South America into a single federated state once they had thrown off the yoke of Spanish colonialism. This was his reason.
There was huge pressure on the central government to decentralize as they held all the power in Indonesian society. However, if they devolved power to the Provinces (States), many of them could be large enough and independent enough to secede and become an independent country as East Timor had done. So the Indonesian power structure bypassed the Provincial governments and devolved power directly to the local governments, none of which was independent enough to go it alone. The desired objective was met—no more secessions. However, there was no one to worry about regional and national issues and problems as the politicians who had power were all local. The country was becoming non-functional in many ways.
See also Matthew 12:25. Quoted by Abraham Lincoln in his speech to the Republican State Convention, Springfield, IL, June 16, 1858
Compare Mark 3:25, above, and Abraham Lincoln's use of the phrase in one of his most famous speeches.
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“Factions” was the word for Political Parties then. Henry, George Washington and other founding fathers were opposed to political parties, while Madison and others thought they needed to controlled. Jefferson thought parties to be important. So there was no uniform consensus among the Founding Fathers. This has his last public speech before his death.
There was an active secession movement by the Western States. New Orleans was then controlled by the Spanish who would not allow U.S. goods access to export from New Orleans. Some of the wealthier Western citizens thought that they would fare better as a vassal state of Spain rather than part of the newly formed United States. Jefferson, did not overreact and the movement for secession faded.
Josiah Tucker (also Josias), also known as Dean Tucker, was a Welsh churchman, known as an economist and political writer. He was concerned in his works with free trade, Jewish emancipation and American independence. He became Dean of Gloucester.
