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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Alexander Hamilton

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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Government Ideas Law Power Punishment Word
Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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Choice Connection Direction Goodness Happiness Serious True
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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Human Man Nature Power Willing
The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long-standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Control Different Force
Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.
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Design Loyalty Man People
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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Power Respect Right Weakness
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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Ambition Hope Option Ourselves Peace War
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Myself Responsibility
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Control Difficult Government Man
Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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Animal Man Reason
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Blessing Money Nation
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Goodness Passion Revolution
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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Enemy Government Responsible
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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Goodness Reality Word
For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
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Equality Mad Politics Religion Weapon
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Act Brave Human Liberty Nature

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

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