A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)
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A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.
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The very aim and intention of the democratical part, or the house of commons, is to secure the rights of the people. It’s very being depends upon those rights. Its whole power is derived from them, and must be terminated by them.
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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
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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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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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The masses are asses.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
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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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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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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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