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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.


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ALICE HAMILTON Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
ALICE HAMILTON Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of...
ALICE HAMILTON Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little gi...
BETHANY HAMILTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations...
VIJALI HAMILTON The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
SCOTT HAMILTON I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing ...
HUGO HAMILTON To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self...
HAMILTON MABIE Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard befor...
HAMILTON JORDAN Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many o...
ADAM HAMILTON We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in...
ADAM HAMILTON