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Passions Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind…
- Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
- The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
- Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than…
- The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition…
- Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
- In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men…
- The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
- What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their…
- Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
- When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
- To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human…
- Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
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- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams
- Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions,… — Bernard Baruch
- He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will… — Sarah Bernhardt
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- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity… — Ambrose Bierce
- It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. — Aesop
- One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but… — Wade Boggs
- The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- We are minor in everything but our passions. — Elizabeth Bowen
- If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. — James Buchan