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Thank you for posting this.
As an aside, as a great read, , “America’s Money, America’s Story” is written by Richard Doty, a history of America’s money...wow. It is written like a novel and I highly recommend it. It could be a stand alone history class book for a college course.
"An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good. It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government."
A shameless plug - our Atlas Shrugged book is out.
the most formidable obstacle to Our Constitution has been the “progressives” and their puppet “Obama”.
Thanks for re-posting this, and for the ping. Despite what I write below, I do appreciate it, and hope to be included in further pings.
What would Hamilton think - and what would he be doing with his time and energy - were he to come back now to see what his early support of the leviathan has wrought?
I have spoken my piece here before as a Southerner, and I have no wish to rehash the meaning of the Civil War for my people, but I am also one who now regards himself quite the Anti-Federalist in general. Hamilton’s whole argument leans solidly in the direction of, and has provided fertile soil for, the current blossoming of the Communist mentality in our land. And today I again read (aloud) his quite eloquent, well-wrought arguments, and they ring again - and even more so - hollow, as I would expect of a lawyer, a statist, and a Northerner.
As one statist told me here long ago: the Federalists won - get over it. I’ve likewise been told that the North won as well - get over it. And now the Communists are winning, and the tyrant Obama won in 2012, - should we get over it?
It is time to dissolve the union that Hamilton pushes here, that led to 600,000 dead and untold suffering in the 1860s, and that is now leading to the globalist yoke coming at us full tilt as I write.
Hamilton, for all his flowery words, was all in for big government. Shame on him.