"It is the Press which has corrupted our……" — Alexander Hamilton
"It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration."
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352 Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton has 352 quotes on this site.
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious…
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error…
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Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion…
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge…
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Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous…
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The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too…
— Edward V. Long
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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly…
— Marianne Williamson
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Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too…
— William Shakespeare
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does…
— Thomas Paine
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...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will…
— Noah Webster
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[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
— Algernon Sidney
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Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
— Albert Einstein
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Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.
— Manis Friedman
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
— Seneca the Younger
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