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?

Lord Byron quotes

Who loves, raves.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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A wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
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Absence - that common cure of love.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
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