To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
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.
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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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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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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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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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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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An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.
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I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape?
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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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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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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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