When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
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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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Best of wives and best of women.
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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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