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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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615 |
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AUTHOR:
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Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) |
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QUOTATION:
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The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a President of the United States. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 75, p. 477 (1961). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Foreign policy |
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