The constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe masses are asses.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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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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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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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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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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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The government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions – a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism- the last, of liberty.
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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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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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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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