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.
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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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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.
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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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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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A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of Government.
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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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For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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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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