No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected wit…

James Madison
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No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus, p.305, Cambridge University Press
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