“Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.”

— Alexander Hamilton

Elliot's Debates, volume 1, p. 463. (29 July 1788)

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Founding Father of the United States 1757–1804

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