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Alexander Hamilton

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"Power may be justly compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes." - Copy to Clipboard

  --  Alexander Hamilton
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