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Albert Gallatin is a bronze statue by James Earle Fraser. It commemorates Albert Gallatin, who founded New York University and served as United States Secretary of the Treasury. It is located north of the Treasury Building (Washington, D.C.), at 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. It was authorized by Congress on January 11, 1927. It was dedicated on October 15, 1947. The inscription reads: (Base, front:) ALBERT GALLATIN SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY GENIUS OF FINANCE SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE COMMISSIONER FOR THE TREATY OF GHENT MINISTER TO FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN AND STEADFAST CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY 1761–1849 See also List of memorials to Albert Gallatin List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 6

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“The whole of that Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals. ... [I]t establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.”
— Letter to Alexander Addison (October 7, 1789); MS. in New York Historical Society—A.G. Papers, 2. Reported in Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Albuquerque: New Mexico UP, 1984), p. 225
“The democratic principle on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.”
— Statement (c. 1797), cited in Profit Sharing Trends (Chicago: Council of Profit Sharing Industries, March–April 1959), pp. 3, 24–25: see Elizabeth Lanham, Administration of Wages and Salaries (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), p. 345, and Milton Derber, The American Idea of Industrial Democracy, 1865–1965 (Urbana: Illinois UP, 1970), introduction, p. 6
“Governmental prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals as if he could do it better than themselves.”
— Letter to Thomas Jefferson (December 18, 1807); Henry Adams (ed.) The Writings of Albert Gallatin, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879), p. 368

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Albert Gallatin is a bronze statue by James Earle Fraser. It commemorates Albert Gallatin, who founded New York University and served as United States Secretary of the Treasury.

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