I think the first duty of society is justice. — Quoted

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“I think the first duty of society is justice.”

Alexander Hamilton · Society

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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

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

Age

Alexander Hamilton

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Politics

Alexander Hamilton

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Politics