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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.

Alexander Hamilton

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!
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Community Government Happiness Oppression Power
The very aim and intention of the democratical part, or the house of commons, is to secure the rights of the people. It’s very being depends upon those rights. Its whole power is derived from them, and must be terminated by them.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Democracy People Power Right Secure
Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Fear Hate Nation
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Mad Politics Religious Weapon
An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Loyalty Man Rich
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Act Brave Human Liberty Nature
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
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Art Reading
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
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Best Hope People
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Myself Responsibility
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
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Authority Nature War
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Goodness Passion Revolution
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Myself Responsibility
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Best Hope People

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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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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