If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONHappy 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!
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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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.
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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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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
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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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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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