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Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and served as the first Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington. He contributed 51 of the 85 Federalist Papers which supported the
US Constitution.
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Reagan speaks of the Founders several times and directly mentioned Hamilton by quoting him:
We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters." Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Let's set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace — and you can have it in the next second — surrender.
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