Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness o…

Alexander Hamilton
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Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder, p.58, Rowman & Littlefield
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Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder, p.58, Rowman & Littlefield

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