Alexander Hamilton Oracles Quotations

There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.