Quote by Alexander Hamilton
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old

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 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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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. – Mao Zedong

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I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. – William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. – Mason Cooley

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka

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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. – John F. Kennedy

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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. – Sigmund Freud, 1933

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It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. – Paul Wellstone

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