The masses are asses.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
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Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.
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If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.
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The constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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