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Essay · Political literature

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 15 · 1787

★ 7.1

Essay · Political literature

It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 1 · 1787

★ 7.0

Essay · Political literature

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 22 · 1787

★ 7.0

Essay · Political literature

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 1 · 1787

★ 7.0

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Books

10set here

A House for Mr. Biswas

1961★ 7.8

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

1952★ 7.0

The Black Jacobins

1938★ 7.0

Cat's Cradle

1963★ 6.4

The Kingdom of This World

Alejo Carpentier

1949★ 6.2

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Bartolome de las Casas

1552★ 6.1

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Movies

2set or made here

Pirates of the Caribbean

2003★ 5.2

Dr. No

1962★ 4.9