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

 

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.


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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

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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.

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Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. -Alexander Hamilton
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

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A promise must never be broken. -Alexander Hamilton
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Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

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