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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe honor of a nation is its life.
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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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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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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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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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The masses are asses.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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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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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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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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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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