Edmund Randolph Quotes

United States, Politician
August 10, 1753 – September, 12, 1813.

Edmund Jennings Randolph was an American attorney and politician. He was the seventh Governor of Virginia, and as a delegate from Virginia, attended the Constitutional Convention, helping to create a national constitution. He was the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General during George Washington's presidency.

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

Edmund Randolph
“The general object was to produce a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origins, every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy.”

Edmund Randolph
- Democracy
- Cure
- Evils

A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies...

Edmund Randolph
- People
- Free
- Armies
It would be a foetus of monarchy!

Edmund Randolph
- Monarchy
- Foetus