Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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.
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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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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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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
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For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
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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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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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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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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Best of wives and best of women.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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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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If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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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