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By John Jay
How liable would she become not only to their contempt but to their outrage, and how soon would dear-bought experience proclaim that when a people or family so divide, it never fails to be against themselves.
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- The Federalist No. 4: The Same Subject Continued: Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence, November 7, 1787 · Federalist No. 4
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- Independent Journal (New York); text from the Library of Congress, Federalist Papers: Primary Documents in American History
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From the close of Federalist No. 4, written by John Jay under the name Publius and first published in the Independent Journal on November 7, 1787. "She" is America, divided into rival confederacies and seen that way by foreign powers.