Alexander Hamilton

(14 votes)   It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

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(282 votes)   We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Alexander Hamilton
1757-1804, American Statesman

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(107 votes)   Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

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(101 votes)   Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

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(69 votes)   "I do not think it for the interest of the general government itself, and still less of the union at large, that the state governments should be so little respected as they have been.

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(45 votes)   Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

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(20 votes)   I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

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(20 votes)   There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

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(19 votes)   A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

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(19 votes)   In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

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(19 votes)   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.

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(19 votes)   You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

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(18 votes)   It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

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(18 votes)   Learn to think continentally.

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(17 votes)   I think the first duty of society is justice.

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