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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

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
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Fall Leadership
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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Goodness Reality Word
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Goodness Passion Revolution
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Man Necessary
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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Hate Man Planning
An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Government Liberty Power Principle
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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Choice Connection Direction Goodness Happiness Serious True
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Authority Nature War
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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Limitation Man Passion Weapon
Best of wives and best of women.
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Best Wife Woman
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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Affection Care Yourself
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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Body Oppression
Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Deep Fall Justice Philosophy
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Experience Philosophy Truth
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Avoid Best Philosophy

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

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