War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement ✨ Alexander …

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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, p.452
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