Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONNature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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The very aim and intention of the democratical part, or the house of commons, is to secure the rights of the people. It’s very being depends upon those rights. Its whole power is derived from them, and must be terminated by them.
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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
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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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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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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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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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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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 is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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