The government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions – a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism- the last, of liberty.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThose who stand for nothing fall for everything.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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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 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.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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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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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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.
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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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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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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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