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Democracy Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
- 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…
- The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
- If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.
- That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well…
- Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his…
- All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people…
- Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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