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.
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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Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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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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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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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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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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