Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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.
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The 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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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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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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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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