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By Alexander Hamilton
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
- Source
- The Federalist No. 8: The Consequences of Hostilities Between the States, November 20, 1787 · Federalist No. 8, New York Packet, Tuesday, November 20, 1787
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- Library of Congress, Federalist Papers: Primary Documents in American History (research guide), Federalist Nos. 1-10
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From Federalist No. 8, written by Alexander Hamilton under the name Publius and first published in the New York Packet on November 20, 1787. The text is from the Library of Congress's Federalist Papers guide, which does not name the edition it follows. The 1818 printing has a comma after "danger."