The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Alexander Hamilton, (Jan 11 1757-1804), US statesman, author; He was the first U.S. treasury secretary, 1789-95; pictured on the ten dollar bill.