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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. – Alexander Hamilton

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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. – Alexander Hamilton

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Politics
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Alexander Hamilton
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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. – Alexander Hamilton

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This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. – John Wycliffe

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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government. – Elizabeth I

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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, youd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. – Karel Capek

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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. – John Maynard Keynes

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