There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONHappy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
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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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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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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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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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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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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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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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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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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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Best of wives and best of women.
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If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
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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 passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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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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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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Dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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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