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Alexander Hamilton has 353 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may…
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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 is that…
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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 to the…
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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 control over…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide…
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
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In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with…
— Mao Zedong
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There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for…
— Minor White
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There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which…
— Lord Acton
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After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose…
— Walter Rodney
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If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a…
— James Madison
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All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that…
— William Gibson
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
— Anne Tyler
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