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Representative Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has…
- I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree,…
- That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well…
- The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
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- Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
- Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith… — Shadia Drury
- If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management… — John Quincy Adams
- The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate… — Clive Bell
- The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by… — Herbert Spencer
- The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting… — Barack Obama
- The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a… — James Madison