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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.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)

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Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), The Federalist 22
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)

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