Banner Quote by Alexander Hamilton

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

— Roger Sherman

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most…

— James Madison

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

— James Madison

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

— Alexander Hamilton

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

— Aristotle

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

— Alexander Hamilton

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

— Theodore White

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

— Ted Cruz

No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may…

— Daniel Webster

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall…

— Yasser Arafat