Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means … - Alexander Hamilton - Quotesmemo.com

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Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but almost impossible to bring to a halt - and quite impossible politically to reverse, no matter how obvious and catastrophic its consequences become.

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Alexander Hamilton

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

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