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“It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government.”

Alexander Hamilton · Government

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Alexander Hamilton

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Age

Alexander Hamilton

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Nature

Alexander Hamilton

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

God

Alexander Hamilton

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Nature