The masses are asses.
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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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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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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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 have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long-standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
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A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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The government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions – a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism- the last, of liberty.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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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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Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
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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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