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1 " Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis. "
― Steven Moffat
2 " Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British government, built on debt, corruption, and influence. Hamilton's goal, Jefferson charged, was to ally the rich and well born with the government at the people's expense, creating a corrupt aristocracy leagued with the government against the people and destroying the virtue that was the basis of republican government. Only a republic could preserve liberty, Jefferson insisted, and only virtue among the people could preserve a republic. "
― , Thomas Jefferson (Oxford Portraits)
