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| Alexander Hamilton -- Quote #1 |
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. -- Alexander Hamilton
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| Alexander Hamilton -- Quote #2 |
...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion. -- Alexander Hamilton
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| Alexander Hamilton -- Quote #3 |
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. -- Alexander Hamilton
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| Alexander Hamilton -- Quote #4 |
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased. -- Alexander Hamilton
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| Alexander Hamilton -- Quote #5 |
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. -- Alexander Hamilton
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| Alexander Hamilton -- Quote #6 |
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. -- Alexander Hamilton
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| Alexander Hamilton -- Quote #7 |
Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes. -- Alexander Hamilton
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| Alexander Hamilton -- Quote #8 |
Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. -- Alexander Hamilton
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| Alexander Hamilton -- Quote #9 |
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. -- Alexander Hamilton
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| Alexander Hamilton -- Quote #10 |
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. -- Alexander Hamilton
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