To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent …

Alexander Hamilton
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To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, p.24
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