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“Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?”

Preach Mr. Hamilton 👏👏👏

“… how soon would dear-bought experience proclaim that when a people or family so divide, it never fails to be against themselves.”

“…absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans.”

HMMMM. HMMMMMMM.