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War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice. — Alexander Hamilton
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… — George Washington
By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline… — Alexander Hamilton
The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land. — Alexander Hamilton
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith. — Alexander Hamilton
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. — Alexander Hamilton
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. — George Washington
A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit. — Alexander Hamilton
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness. — Alexander Hamilton
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation,… — George Washington
Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. — Thomas Jefferson
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to… — George Washington
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto… — John Quincy Adams
Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other. — Ronald Reagan
George, your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq. Helping to bring… — Cindy Sheehan
The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want… — Noam Chomsky
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. — Harold Geneen
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. — Miguel de Cervantes
My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me. — Willie Aames
The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide. — Alexander Hamilton
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master. — Alexander Hamilton
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against… — Alexander Hamilton
That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. — Alexander Hamilton
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities. — Thucydides
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby… — Michael Parenti

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