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“The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people,” he told Morris. “In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
“Hamilton dreaded parties as “the most fatal disease” of popular governments and hoped America could dispense with such groups.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
“the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
“They ticked the boxes of a certain kind of enlightened, educated middle-classness, the love of dresses that were more interesting than pretty, the love of the eclectic, the love of what they were supposed to love. Ifemelu imagined them when they traveled: they would collect unusual things and fill their homes with them, unpolished evidence of their polish.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“Ah, this is the constitution,” he said. “Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
Ellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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