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

Alexander Hamilton

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Deep Fall Justice Philosophy
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
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Believe Change Determination God Judgement People Right True Voice
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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Art Reading
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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Best Hope People
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.
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Control Difficult Government Man
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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Change Necessary Possible Reason
There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)
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Expression Fight Language Togetherness Word
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Age Body Expectation Trust
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.
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Control Different Force
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Blessing Money Perspective
I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.
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Alone Feeling Myself Necessary Satisfaction
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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Experience Philosophy Truth
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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Democracy Government Liberty Reality
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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Goodness Word
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Myself Responsibility
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
Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
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Community Government Happiness Oppression Power
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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Government Ideas Law Power Punishment Word
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 Peace War
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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Danger Power Safety
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Myself Responsibility
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Act Brave Fun Liberty Nature Rise
The 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.
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Divine Hands Human Right Writing
Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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Fear Hate Nation
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
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Goodness Passion Revolution
The constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Citizenship Peace People

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