“An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the State to the acquisition of wealth. An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue, which would make it wise in a Nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a Magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.”
-Alexander Hamilton
Quote Number: 3
Source: Hamilton, Alexander. “The Treaty Making Power of the Executive.” Federalist No 75. March 26, 1788. The Federalist Papers. Online from Congress of the USA Here.
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