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“The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

“Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

“Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.”
― Alexander Hamilton

“To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers