Alexander Hamilton

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• A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

  Letter to Robert Morris (30 April 1781)

  • Economics

• Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

  The Federalist Papers (1787–1788), No. 15

  • Government

• Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

  • Age

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy