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That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Alexander Hamilton
Parent, Human Nature, Adages
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.137, Rowman & Littlefield

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Alexander Hamilton
Passion, Human Nature, Mankind
Alexander Hamilton (1962). “Jan. 1787-May 1788.-v. 5.June 1778-Nov. 1789.-v. 6. Dec. 1789-Aug. 1790”

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

Alexander Hamilton
Example, Human Nature, Virtue
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.60, Rowman & Littlefield

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

Alexander Hamilton
May, Common, Human Nature
Alexander Hamilton (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793”, p.166

Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice?

Alexander Hamilton
Passion, Justice, Human Nature
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.26

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

Alexander Hamilton
Passion, May, Human Nature
Alexander Hamilton (1962). “Jan.1787-May 1788”

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

Alexander Hamilton
Human Nature, False Hope, Occasions
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.257, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

Alexander Hamilton
Passion, Human Nature, Fit
Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

Alexander Hamilton
Men, Principles, Human Nature
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.328

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

Alexander Hamilton
Progress, Human Nature, Affair
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.34, Courier Corporation

When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.

Alexander Hamilton
Men, May, Human Nature
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.368

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