Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1334 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) |
| QUOTATION: | Your people, sir, is nothing but a great beast! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to For similar expressions of this idea going back to Horace, see Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 15th ed., p. 108, no. 19 and footnotes (1982), and The Home Book of Quotations, ed. Burton Stevenson, 9th ed., p. 1483–84, section 7 (1964). |
| SUBJECTS: | People |