Alexander Hamilton — "I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man."

"All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people."

"Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments."

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity its…"

"The administration of government, in its largest sense, is the greatest of all sciences."

"The necessity of a vigorous, energetic government is not a new doctrine."