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We had thought, or our forefathers had, that modern liberal democracy would be spared the kind of erosion and decay that both Plato and Aristotle declared endemic in all forms of state. Now we are not so sure.
Robert Nisbet

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I know I have talents and a good heart, but why am I not handsome? Why have I not every acquirement that can embellish human nature? Why have I not fortune, that I might hereafter have more leisure than I shall have to cultivate those improvements for which I am not entirely unfit?

Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth

To paraphrase: ‘I mean, I know I’m awesome…by why aren’t I AMAZING?’

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You may have been taught to believe… that he eats little children; but I assure you he is a man of humanity and candor as well as integrity.
President John Adams, defending the honor of his second cousin and Founding Father Samuel Adams to Richard Oswald

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