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.
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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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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If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
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All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.
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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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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
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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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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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The masses are asses.
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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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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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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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