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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)

Results from Classic Quotes:

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
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 (1755 - 1804)
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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 (1755 - 1804)
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), The Federalist
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A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Letter to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

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 (1755 - 1804)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), The Federalist 22

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