"When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune,

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14. Alexander Hamilton's words are online through the Library of Congress.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-12-02-0184-0002

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Objections and Answers respecting the Administration
of the Government

That's the bulk of a paragraph perhaps 2/3 of the way down the page, Part of Objection XIV.. The Founding Fathers understood people and anticipated a lot. They just didn't put it firmly enough in our laws.

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.”