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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.

Alexander Hamilton

Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Authority Nature War
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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Danger Power Safety
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Mistake Person
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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Choice Connection Goodness Happiness Public
Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
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Community Government Happiness Oppression Power
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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Mad Politics Religious Weapon
Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Fear Hate Nation
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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Equality Mad Politics Religion Weapon
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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Learning Myself Opinion Value
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
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Hate Man Planning
Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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Government Liberty Security
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.
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Ambition Hope Peace War
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Myself Responsibility
Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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Necessary Philosophy
The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long-standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
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Control Different Force
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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Born Community People Rich

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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