The honor of a nation is its life.
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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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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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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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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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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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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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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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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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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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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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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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.
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