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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONI have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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 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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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 national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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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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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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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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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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