Dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONMen 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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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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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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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