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A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

Conceit
3

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Alexander Hamilton

Constitution
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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Alexander Hamilton

Government
5

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

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I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

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In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support [salary] is a power over his will.

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In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Alexander Hamilton

Reason
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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

Genius
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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

Power
12

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Alexander Hamilton

Firmness
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Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

Alexander Hamilton

Wife
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The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator, to the whole human race; and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice. Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

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The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a President of the United States.

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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 or obscured by mortal power.

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The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Alexander Hamilton

Adaptability
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When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.

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Your people, sir, is nothing but a great beast!

Alexander Hamilton

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A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support [salary] is a power over his will.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

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 or obscured by mortal power.

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Your people, sir, is nothing but a great beast!