Respectable Quotes - Page 16

• The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

  George Eliot

  Gout, Rich, Accepting

  George Eliot (2014). “Silas Marner”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Rights, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1865). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”, p.131

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