The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONLet 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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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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If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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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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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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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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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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.
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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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Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants.
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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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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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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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The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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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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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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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.
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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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