Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within it bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. - Andrew Hamilton

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Andrew Hamilton: "Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within it bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes."

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Banks	Bears	Beautiful	Bounds
Brings	Comes	Compared	Desolation
Destruction	Down	Great	Impetuous
Justly	Kept	Overflows	Power
River	Stemmed	Useful	Wherever
While	Within

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