Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONA national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
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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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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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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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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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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 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 nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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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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