Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONMen of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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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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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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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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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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