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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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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. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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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. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

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The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family. ↗

— Erica Goros

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

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