Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThere 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)
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A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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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 passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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If 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.
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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 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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants.
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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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All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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