Alexander Hamilton quote :

[kentuck]

“Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the generality of them. Yet it would not be difficult to lay the finger upon some of their party who may justly be suspected.

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 demeanour—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 & 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.”

[lagomorph777]

1. Holy moly - 18th century language describing 21st century assholes.

Who was he targeting at the time?

[-misanthroptimist]

4. Assholes are plentiful in any century.

[Hortensis]

5. Right. An expected threat arising in democracy. People are

always its great weakness.

[DENVERPOPS]

7. I particularly liked

the frenchman, who centuries ago looked at the U.S. and said something to the effect:
Democracy will work until some group realizes that they can vote themselves money.............

[captain queeg]

2. He sure nailed it way back then

I’d be interested to know if he had anyone or a group in mind when he wrote that.

[malaise]

3. He was writing about

the Slobfather aka SICKKK!

[haele]

8. Nope, he was writing about Burr.

Aaron Burr believed in the democracy of the educated, monied or propertied Elites along with an impartial Rule of Law; while he felt the Plebes would be happy just feeding off scraps of citizenship tossed to them by their Enlightened betters. Like many of the Founding fathers, he thought the Plebes shouldn't really try to better themselves much; only the ones with the most "nobility" should be allowed to rise. In fact, his final "political adventure" in Texas was an attempt to "fix" the problems he had with the United States.

Burr had a Calvinist upbringing. Suffering is the way God tempers the soul for heaven, and if one prospers, one has been blessed and approved of by God.

One of the reasons Burr despised Hamilton (and vice versa) even though he respected him -most of the time.

Haele

[malaise]

9. Well that's definitely not SICKKK

Thanks

[abqtommy]

6. Back in the founding days of our nation we had a lot of thinkers. Nowadays with all the

reTHUGS what we have is mostly stinkers.

[BobTheSubgenius]

10. While this quote is not on point with Hamilton's, I've always found it incredibly interesting.

A former President said: "America is the most litigious country on Earth, We are becoming a nation of lawyers."

I don't know what year this was opined, but it was Thomas Jefferson that said it.