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)
ALEXANDER HAMILTONWe must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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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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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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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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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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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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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
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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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Men 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.
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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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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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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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