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Experience 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…
- The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep…
- Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements…
- That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest 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…
- It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still…
- The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have…
- 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…
- ... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means…
- After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United…
- It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself,…
- I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the…
- Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
- There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective…
- Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
- Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
- In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture, materially depend, in…
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- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
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- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila