Quote by Alexander Hamilton
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It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. – 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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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. – Alexander Hamilton

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You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. … Its a disease I came to call Ovalitis. – John Dean

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The President is the peoples lobbyist. – Hubert Humphrey

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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now Im beginning to believe it. – Clarence Darrow

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If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. – Vaclav Havel

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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology. – Mason Cooley

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I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the suns energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. – George Porter

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

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