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  1. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits -- despotic in his ordinary demeanor -- 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 and 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."
    -- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Government #Opportunism #Politics #Tyranny

    #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

  2. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits -- despotic in his ordinary demeanor -- 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 and 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."
    -- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Government #Opportunism #Politics #Tyranny

    #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

  3. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits -- despotic in his ordinary demeanor -- 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 and 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."
    -- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Government #Opportunism #Politics #Tyranny

    #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

  4. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits -- despotic in his ordinary demeanor -- 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 and 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."
    -- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Government #Opportunism #Politics #Tyranny

    #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

  5. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits -- despotic in his ordinary demeanor -- 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 and 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."
    -- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Government #Opportunism #Politics #Tyranny

    #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

  6. Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
    -- Alexander Hamilton

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Effort #Genius

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  7. The Sinking Fund Commission has come up several times. Historians & legal scholars regard it as the nation’s first #independent agency. Created in 1790 by the first #Congress, the 5-member commission approved payments to settle America’s Revolutionary War debts.

    The commission’s structure was proposed by #AlexanderHamilton, who saw it as a way to insulate members from #political pressures.

    #law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #power #SeparationOfPowers 🧵

  8. The Sinking Fund Commission has come up several times. Historians & legal scholars regard it as the nation’s first #independent agency. Created in 1790 by the first #Congress, the 5-member commission approved payments to settle America’s Revolutionary War debts.

    The commission’s structure was proposed by #AlexanderHamilton, who saw it as a way to insulate members from #political pressures.

    #law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #power #SeparationOfPowers 🧵

  9. The Sinking Fund Commission has come up several times. Historians & legal scholars regard it as the nation’s first #independent agency. Created in 1790 by the first #Congress, the 5-member commission approved payments to settle America’s Revolutionary War debts.

    The commission’s structure was proposed by #AlexanderHamilton, who saw it as a way to insulate members from #political pressures.

    #law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #power #SeparationOfPowers 🧵

  10. The Sinking Fund Commission has come up several times. Historians & legal scholars regard it as the nation’s first #independent agency. Created in 1790 by the first #Congress, the 5-member commission approved payments to settle America’s Revolutionary War debts.

    The commission’s structure was proposed by #AlexanderHamilton, who saw it as a way to insulate members from #political pressures.

    #law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #power #SeparationOfPowers 🧵

  11. The Sinking Fund Commission has come up several times. Historians & legal scholars regard it as the nation’s first #independent agency. Created in 1790 by the first #Congress, the 5-member commission approved payments to settle America’s Revolutionary War debts.

    The commission’s structure was proposed by #AlexanderHamilton, who saw it as a way to insulate members from #political pressures.

    #law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #power #SeparationOfPowers 🧵

  12. "It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force."

    #AlexanderHamilton from the first paragraph of #TheFederalistPapers

    can the #Enlightenment ideas be more than theory?

  13. A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

    The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

    Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
    Essay (1775-02-23), “The Farmer Refuted”

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hamilton #alexanderhamilton #civilrights #divinewill #godgivenrights #humannature #humanrights #naturalrights #rights

  14. A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

    The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

    Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
    Essay (1775-02-23), “The Farmer Refuted”

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hamilton #alexanderhamilton #civilrights #divinewill #godgivenrights #humannature #humanrights #naturalrights #rights

  15. A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

    The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

    Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
    Essay (1775-02-23), “The Farmer Refuted”

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hamilton #alexanderhamilton #civilrights #divinewill #godgivenrights #humannature #humanrights #naturalrights #rights

  16. A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

    The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

    Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
    Essay (1775-02-23), “The Farmer Refuted”

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hamilton #alexanderhamilton #civilrights #divinewill #godgivenrights #humannature #humanrights #naturalrights #rights

  17. A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

    The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

    Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
    Essay (1775-02-23), “The Farmer Refuted”

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hamilton #alexanderhamilton #civilrights #divinewill #godgivenrights #humannature #humanrights #naturalrights #rights

  18. Hamilton's 10th anniversary celebration! Time to explore the real NYC locations behind the musical. Visit Hamilton Grange in St. Nicholas Park, Fraunces Tavern where Hamilton and Burr met, Federal Hall where debates raged, and Trinity Church where Hamilton rests. The National Park Service reports Hamilton Grange visits have skyrocketed since the show debuted.
    #Hamilton #NYC #Broadway #History #Tourism #AlexanderHamilton #Theater
    untappedcities.com/a-guide-to-

  19. A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

    The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.

    Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
    Letter (1792-08-18) to George Washington, Enclosure: “Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration,” Objection 14

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/7…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alexanderhamilton #civildisorder #control #corruption #demagoguery #democracy #despotism #disorder #incitement #lawlessness #republic #security #subversion #tyranny #unrest

  20. A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

    The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.

    Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
    Letter (1792-08-18) to George Washington, Enclosure: “Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration,” Objection 14

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/7…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alexanderhamilton #civildisorder #control #corruption #demagoguery #democracy #despotism #disorder #incitement #lawlessness #republic #security #subversion #tyranny #unrest

  21. A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

    The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.

    Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
    Letter (1792-08-18) to George Washington, Enclosure: “Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration,” Objection 14

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/7…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alexanderhamilton #civildisorder #control #corruption #demagoguery #democracy #despotism #disorder #incitement #lawlessness #republic #security #subversion #tyranny #unrest

  22. [A supermajority congress would serve] to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government, and to substitute the pleasure, caprice, or artifices of an insignificant, turbulent, or corrupt junta, to the regular deliberations and decisions of a respectable majority.
    -- Alexander Hamilton (The Federalist No. 22)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Embarrassment #Filibuster #Government #Law

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

  23. @mina

    #Economics
    #Neoliberalism
    #JamesBuchanan

    (1/n)

    You are quite right in your assesment, Mina, though you focus on the 1 of 3 #neoliberal
    strands that is the pillar of #Reagonomics and #Trumpism, #Buchanan's #VirginiaSchool:

    "...unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, 👉#Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.👈" 1)

    @number6
    @fosstodon.org

    1)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1125

  24. The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.
    -- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Authoritarianism #Government #Opportunism #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

  25. Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
    -- Alexander Hamilton

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Effort #Genius

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

  26. The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.
    -- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Authoritarianism #Government #Opportunism #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

  27. Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton

    O kalibrze Hamilton świadczy fakt, że chłopak urodzony i wychowany na karaibskiej wyspie Nevis, gdzie na każdego białego kolonistę przypadało czterech czarnych niewolników, a nawet jego skromnie żyjąca rodzina miała kilkoro, był od wczesnej dorosłości zawziętym abolicjonistą, wolnym od rasowych uprzedzeń swojej epoki.

    wp.me/p3fv0T-h3c #OffTopic #USA #AlexanderHamilton #Hamilton #ksiazka

  28. Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
    -- Alexander Hamilton

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Effort #Genius

    #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

  29. I forgot to do a #WIPWednesday for a while. Got busy, but also because it's the same damn work, only longer.... Lace is a #SlowHobby.

    This is an #IpswichLace replica pattern. These were found in #AlexanderHamilton's papers and patterns recreated from original samples of ~1790 #American #BobbinLace from #Massachusetts.

    #TextileHistory #Lace #IpswichMA