"Diffusiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... known fact in human nature, that its affections are commonly weak in proportion to the distance or diffusiveness of the object. Upon the same principle that a man is more attached to his family than to his neighborhood, to his neighborhood than to the community at large, the people of each State would be apt to feel a stronger bias towards their local governments than towards the government ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison |
