45 ordspråk av Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton föddes den
11 januari 1757 och dog den 12 juli
1804 - of the Treasury of the United States (1789-95).
Mer info via Google eller Bing. The courts must declare the sense of the law and if they should be disposed exercise will, instead of judgment, the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body.
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The founders established a government of checks and balances so nobody could take advantage. As for Hamilton, he set up our banking system.
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The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?
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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.
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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.
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Their very character was tyranny; their figure, deformity.
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and haulers of water.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
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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 or
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation
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who behave amiss, or betray their public trust.
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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.
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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Your people, sir, is nothing but a great beast
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