Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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A strong body makes the mind strong, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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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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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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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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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