A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of Government.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONA national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.
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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 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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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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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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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 pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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There 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)
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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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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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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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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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