Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONMen 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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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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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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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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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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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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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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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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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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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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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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