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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Alexander Hamilton

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!
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Community Government Happiness Oppression Power
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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Goodness Reality Word
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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Best Hope People
An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.
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Government Liberty Power Principle
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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Government Justice Man Passion Reason
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Mistake Person
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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Man Mistake Nation Patriot Season Worth
Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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Government Liberty Security
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Myself Responsibility
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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Enemy Government People
Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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Government Liberty Security
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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Choice Connection Goodness Happiness Public
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Fall Leadership
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Goodness Passion Revolution
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Man Necessary
Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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Animal Man Reason

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