Mr. Right Opinion
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"As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others."
-- Alexander Hamilton (speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 1788)
Reference: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Henry Cabot Lodge, ed., II, 26.
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"No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will."
-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to George Washington, 9 September 1792)
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What a wordsmith this guy was, eh?
The Patriot Post Founders' Quote Daily
"Tis well."
-- George Washington (Last Words, 14 December 1799)
Reference: The First of Men, Ferling (507)
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