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Joseph Story Quotes about War

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

Joseph Story, Edmund H. Bennett (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.97

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.415