The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
Wit is educated insolence.
He was a wise man who invented God.
The gods too are fond of a joke
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.