Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONA well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long-standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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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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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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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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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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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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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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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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