Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONIf we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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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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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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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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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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