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Age Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of…
- To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform…
- The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
- ... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means…
- Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
- Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of…
- The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of…
- Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in…
- Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
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