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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Alexander Hamilton

The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Equality Pain Peace Preparation Responsibility War
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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Ambition Hope Peace War
Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Fear Hate Nation
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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Choice Connection Goodness Happiness Public
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Democracy Government Liberty Reality
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Authority Nature War
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Experience Philosophy Truth
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Age Body Expectation Trust
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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Divine Hands Human Right Writing
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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Ambition Hope Option Ourselves Peace War
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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Advice Body Independence Mindset Strong Weapon
A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Powerful Victory
Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Animal Man Reason
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Human Man Nature Power Willing
Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Oppression Power
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Danger Power Safety

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