A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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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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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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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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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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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.
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
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An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.
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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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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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