The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONExperience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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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Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
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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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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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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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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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The 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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
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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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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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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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