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.
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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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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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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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The masses are asses.
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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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All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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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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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
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A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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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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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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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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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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