Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may c…

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788, p.287
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