“There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.”
—Alexander Hamilton.
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Alexander Hamilton: Speedy victim
“An individual who is observed to be inconsistent to his plans, or perhaps to carry on his affairs without any plan at all, is marked at once. By all prudent people, as a speedy victim to his own unsteadiness and folly.“
― Alexander Hamilton.
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Alexander Hamilton: Inconstant
“An individual who is observed to be inconstant to his plans, or perhaps to carry on his affairs without any plan at all, is marked at once. By all prudent people, as a speedy victim to his own unsteadiness and folly.”
‒ Alexander Hamilton.
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Alexander Hamilton: No agency in planning it
“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.”
—Alexander Hamilton.
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Alexander Hamilton: Tyranny and deformity
“It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny, their figure deformity.”
—Alexander Hamilton.
