The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe, cruel, and oppressive measures. Instead of endeavoring to establish their authority in the affection of their subjects, they think they have no security but in their fear.


The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton (ed. 1842)

Alexander Hamilton Quotes

The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe,...

The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe,...

The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe,...

The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe,...