A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONNature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants.
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The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long-standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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The government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions – a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism- the last, of liberty.
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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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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 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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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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