A Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton
American - Politician
January 11, 1755 - July 12, 1804

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

Abraham Lincoln

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Marianne Williamson

Where protection of certain sensitive information is well-founded, I remain committed to upholding the laws and longstanding policies governing classification and public release.

Christopher A. Wray

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

Ludwig von Mises

Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.

Don Lemon

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.

Walter Bagehot

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Frank B. Kellogg

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

Kofi Annan

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

Umberto Eco

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

John Haynes Holmes

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

Isaiah Berlin

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

Thomas Jefferson

It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.

Gregory Maguire

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

George Eliot

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

Lin Yutang

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