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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONCold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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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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Best of wives and best of women.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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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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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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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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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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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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