Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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)
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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The constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
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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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For 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.
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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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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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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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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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 best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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.
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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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