Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 70:
Males typically oppose a factor, merely as a result of they’ve had no company in planning it, or as a result of it might have been deliberate by these whom they dislike. But when they’ve been consulted, and have occurred to disapprove, opposition then turns into, of their estimation, an indispensable obligation of self-love. They appear to assume themselves sure in honor, and by all of the motives of non-public infallibility, to defeat the success of what has been resolved upon opposite to their sentiments.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Beliefs and Doubts, in Collected Authorized Papers 303, 305 (1920), quoted in Michael Boudin’s evaluate of a quantity of Louis Brandeis’s letters, 85 Yale L. J. 591, 596 (1976):
[T]he mode during which the inevitable involves move is thru effort. . . . And though with Spinoza we might regard criticism of the previous as futile, there may be each purpose for doing all that we are able to to make the long run equivalent to we want.
