Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONA strong body makes the mind strong, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.
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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.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
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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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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 honor of a nation is its life.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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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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The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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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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