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

Alexander Hamilton

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
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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Best Hope People
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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Democracy People Power Right Secure
Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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Animal Man Reason
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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Beginning Career End Greatness Liberty Man People
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Myself Responsibility
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Fall Leadership
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
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Man Necessary
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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Art Reading
Best of wives and best of women.
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Best Wife Woman
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
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Danger Liberty Love Powerful Safety Time
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Mistake Person
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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Mad Politics Religious Weapon
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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Equality Freedom Slave
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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Enemy Government People

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