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.
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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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.
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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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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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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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Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.
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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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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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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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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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All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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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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