what does this mean?? "I never use my sword when my whip will do, nor my whip when my tongue will do?"

Means the speaker will never fight if he can get it by assaulting people and will never assault people if he can make them understand what he say.

states

explanation:

as the old saying goes, all politics are local. state and federal governments affect our daily lives in numerous ways. yet, in our federal system, there is supposed to be a balance between federal and state power. as james madison envisioned it in federalist no. 51, “the power surrendered by the people” would be “divided between two distinct governments,” creating a balance of power that would enable the “different governments [to] control each other.”