The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Best of wives and best of women.
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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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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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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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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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