Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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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 pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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Dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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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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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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Best of wives and best of women.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Cold 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.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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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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