Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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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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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
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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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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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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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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 constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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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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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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The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
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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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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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