We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe 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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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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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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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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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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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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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The honor of a nation is its life.
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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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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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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 masses are asses.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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A strong body makes the mind strong, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.
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