When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
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;
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.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing — and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.