"When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits, despotic in his ordinary demeanor known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty, when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity to join in the cry of danger to liberty, to take every opportunity of embarrassing the general government and bringing it under suspicion, to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion, that he might ride the storm and direct the whirlwind." Alexander HamiltonĪnd this is a "Perfect" description of Donald J. This Applies to the Republican Party/ GOP today in it's All-In acceptance of Donald Trump.Īnd in a letter to George Washington, Alexander Hamilton had this to say about what to be wary of in a political leader ![]() ![]() "However may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."įAREWELL ADDRESS | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1796 George Washington had this to say about political parties and what to be wary of.
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