Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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 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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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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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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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 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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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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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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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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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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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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The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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