There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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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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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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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 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.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions – a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism- the last, of liberty.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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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