I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.
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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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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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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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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.
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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
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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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The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
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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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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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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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