Alexander Hamilton Quotes on Passion
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.