The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
— Alexander Hamilton Early Modern

Founding Father, Treasury

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1775

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Humorous

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https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0057

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