To judge from the history of
mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude that the fiery and destructive
passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the
mild and beneficent sentiments of peace; and that to model our political
systems upon speculations of lasting tranquillity would be to calculate on the
weaker springs of human character.
. . . Alexander Hamilton
Federalist No. 34
1788
A universal peace, it is to be
feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the
imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent
enthusiasts.
. . . James Madison
Essay in the National Gazette
1792
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