We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never foun…

Alexander Hamilton
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We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton (1932). Jeffersonian principles and Hamiltonian principles: extracts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
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