Alexander Hamilton:
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?

Horace Greeley quotes

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
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Common sense is very uncommon.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
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The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
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There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
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