Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.
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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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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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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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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Best of wives and best of women.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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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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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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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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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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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A strong body makes the mind strong, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.
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Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.
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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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