When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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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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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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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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