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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONBest of wives and best of women.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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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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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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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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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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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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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape?
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A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
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A strong body makes the mind strong, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.
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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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