What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statutes the next.


The Federalist: On the New Constitution (ed. 1810)

Alexander Hamilton Quotes

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of...

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of...

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of...

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of...