A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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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The masses are asses.
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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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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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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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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The honor of a nation is its life.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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