Andrew Hamilton
Andrew Hamilton
country knowing liberty life loves man misery
The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery
bears beautiful both bounds brings compared great justly kept power wherever within
Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within it 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 comes.