Roger Sherman Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war."

by:	Roger Sherman (1721-1793) US Founding father, first mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, served on the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, representative and senator in the new republic, was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the U.S.: the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
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