The very aim and intention of the democratical part, or the house of commons, is to secure the rights of the people. It’s very being depends upon those rights. Its whole power is derived from them, and must be terminated by them.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONNature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
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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. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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The government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions – a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism- the last, of liberty.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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.
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