Alexander Hamilton, Baruch Spinoza, Communist Party Education Workers Congress

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"Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government

with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that

every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity,

impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in

the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country."

-- Alexander Hamilton

(1757-1804)

Source: Federalist No. 25, 21 December 1787. Reference: Hamilton, Federalist No. 25 (167)

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"Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather thanthe wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than forirritating the upright."

-- Baruch Spinoza

(1632-1677)

Source: cited in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955

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"We must create out of the younger generation a generation ofCommunists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, intoreal, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crudeinfluence of their families. We must take them over and, to speakfrankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they willbe under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries andschools. There they will grow up to be real Communists."

-- Communist Party Education Workers Congress

1918

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