Blessed we are Stan, but I have real fear that we can remain united
John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States, Federalist Paper No. 2, "Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence"
This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.
