The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-94 Quotes

“Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded. Thy are barred from the latter functions by a great principle in free government, analogous to that which separates the sword from the purse, or the power of executing from the power of enacting laws.”
― James Madison, The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-94: Toward the Completion of the American Founding