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“If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.”
― Alexander Hamilton

“There was a pleasantness to the air and a spirit about the town that did not come from its color, but from some inner, tasty citrus quality. It made Alexia wonder fancifully if cities could have souls.”
― gail carriger, Blameless

“I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.”
― Alexander Hamilton

“If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures. Under Adams as under Jefferson, the government shall sink. The party in the hands of whose chief it shall sink will sink with it—and the advantage will be all on the side of his adversaries.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton