A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long-standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
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Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape?
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of Government.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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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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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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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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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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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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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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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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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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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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
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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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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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