The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONIn framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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The masses are asses.
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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
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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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The constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
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Dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
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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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