Hugh Hamilton Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.	Adaptation
2	Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.	Firmness
3	Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.	Government
4	I think the first duty of society is justice.	Justice
5	In all legislative assemblies, the greater the number composing them may be, the fewer will be the men who will in fact direct their proceedings.	Leadership
6	Man -- a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.	Man
7	How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? . . . Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.	Poverty
8	In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.	Power
9	In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.	Power
10	Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal	Reason

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