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.
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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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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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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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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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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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Happy 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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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of Government.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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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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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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The very aim and intention of the democratical part, or the house of commons, is to secure the rights of the people. It’s very being depends upon those rights. Its whole power is derived from them, and must be terminated by them.
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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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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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