You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONI 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.
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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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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Dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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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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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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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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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A strong body makes the mind strong, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.
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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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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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