Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONI have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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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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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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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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A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding 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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There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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