"The genius of the people will ill brook……" — Alexander Hamilton
"The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws."
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352 Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
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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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We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
— George Bird Grinnell
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
— William Arthur Ward
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest,…
— William Shakespeare
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Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
— William Shakespeare
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By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.
— Opal Whiteley
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
— Wallace Stegner
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The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge…
— James Lane Allen
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Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
— Gautama Buddha
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To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or…
— Herbert Hoover
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Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
— Hildegard of Bingen
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