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• A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. -- Alexander Hamilto
• Religion and Morality are the firmest foundations of the duties of men and women.
  -- Alexander Hamilto...
• That truth cannot be material in any respect, is contrary to the nature of things.
  No tribunal, no codes, no systems can repeal or impair this law of God, for by his eternal laws it is inherent in the nature of things ....
• Perhaps myself the first, at some expence of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist.
  Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischevous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite....
• I trust the first lion he meets will do his duty. -- J.P. Morgan on Teddy Roosevelt's safari
• The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. Abbie Hoffma
• The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich