This idea of an opposition between those two interests is the common error of the early periods of every country, but experience gradually dissipates it. (Alexander Hamilton)

This idea of an opposition between those two interests is the common error of the early periods of every country, but experience gradually dissipates it.

Alexander Hamilton

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