The Federalist Papers · Federalist No. 20 · paragraph 13

It was long ago remarked by Grotius, that nothing but the hatred of his countrymen to the house of Austria kept them from being ruined by the vices of their constitution.

Publius · Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison · 1787–1788
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