The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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The honor of a nation is its life.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
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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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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
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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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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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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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