Quote by Alexander Hamilton
I think the first duty of society is justice. - Alexander Hamilton

I think the first duty of society is justice. – Alexander Hamilton

Other quotes by Alexander Hamilton

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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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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In a closed society where everybodys guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. – Hunter S. Thompson

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I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. – Nelson Mandela

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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. – Carl Sandburg, New York Post, 9 September 1960

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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what Im saying is common sense. Its very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values. – Ai Weiwei

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. – Voltaire

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My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this? – Jerry Zucker

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Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. – Napoleon

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