Creative Quotations from Alexander Hamilton ( ) born on Jan 11 U. S

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Creative Quotations from Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) born on Jan 11 U.S. statesman and first treasury secretary.

The sacred rights of mankind… are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature…

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect men.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it…

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