Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe honor of a nation is its life.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape?
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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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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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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A 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 rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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