There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain deg…

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There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, p.259
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