Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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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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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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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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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 men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.
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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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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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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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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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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape?
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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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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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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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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