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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.

Alexander Hamilton

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Experience Philosophy Truth
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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Choice Connection Goodness Happiness Public
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Citizenship Enjoyment Oneself Protection Purpose Right
Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Government Liberty Security
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Danger Power Safety
The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Power Respect Right Weakness
Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Necessary Philosophy
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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Career Friendship Myself
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?
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Enough Evil Imperfection Promise Seen Weakness
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Authority Nature War
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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Believe Change Determination God Judgement People Right True Voice
Dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
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Ambition Appearance Danger Government People Right
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Angel Government Man Necessary
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Government Justice Man Passion Reason
Best of wives and best of women.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Best Wife Woman
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Animal Government Man Passion Reason

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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