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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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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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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 nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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