Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration...
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Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration, 18 August 1792 by Alexander Hamilton
Published on July 7, 2017
Valerie Galante, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
This quote by Hamilton is as applicable today as it was in 1792.
"The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.
Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchynot that this is the intention of the generality 47 of them. Yet it would not be difficult to lay the finger upon some of their party who may justly be suspected. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habitsdespotic in his ordinary demeanourknown to have scoffed in private at the principles of libertywhen such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularityto join in the cry of danger to libertyto take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicionto flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the dayIt may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ride the storm and direct the whirlwind. ~ Alexander Hamilton
If interested, read the entire discourse at
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-12-02-0184-0002