Alexander Hamilton - Aug 1792
"When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’”
Although a proponent of a strong chief executive, there was an understanding that men are fallible and there must be an ability to remove a tyrant from office without having to resort yet again to the likes of the war they’d just fought. The above quote from a federalist paper written by Hamilton and edited by Washington.
How far we’ve come in 227 years, how little we’ve advanced.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-12-02-0184-0002
"When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’”
Although a proponent of a strong chief executive, there was an understanding that men are fallible and there must be an ability to remove a tyrant from office without having to resort yet again to the likes of the war they’d just fought. The above quote from a federalist paper written by Hamilton and edited by Washington.
How far we’ve come in 227 years, how little we’ve advanced.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-12-02-0184-0002
