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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONMen are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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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For 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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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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The government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions – a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism- the last, of liberty.
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In 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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