James Madison Quote

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.


The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788 (ed. 1842)


America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited,...

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited,...

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited,...

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited,...