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The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
Alexander Hamilton
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The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
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The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
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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.
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Experience is the oracle of truth and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one or the other is necessary, the former becomes only an apparent, partial interest, and should yield, on the principle that the smaller good ought never to oppose the greater good.
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It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.
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