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"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." -
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Top 5 quotes from Alexander Hamilton
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!"
"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint."
"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."
"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."
Top 5 quotes from Morality
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble."
"I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."
"The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."
"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
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