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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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. – 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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You dont need to know whos playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles. – James Baker

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The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. – Nelson Rockefeller

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