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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 discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures…
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the…
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As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally…
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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind,…
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We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
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So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part…
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