"The safety of a republic depends
essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of
principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and
prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to
be closely connected with birth, education, and family. The opinion advanced in
the Notes on Virginia is undoubtedly correct, that foreigners will generally be
apt to bring with them attachments to the persons they have left behind; to the
country of their nativity; and to its particular customs and manners. They will
also entertain opinions on government congenial with those under which they
have lived; or if they should be led hither from a preference to ours, how
extremely unlikely is it that they will bring with them that temperate love of
liberty, so essential to real republicanism?"
--Alexander Hamilton, From the New
York Evening Post: an Examination of the President's Message, Continued, No.
VIII, 1802
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