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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.

Alexander Hamilton

The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Power Respect Right Weakness
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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Body Oppression
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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Equality Freedom Slave
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Mistake Person
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Blessing Money Nation
An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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Loyalty Man Rich
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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Alone Feeling Myself Necessary Satisfaction
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
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Danger Liberty Love Powerful Safety Time
A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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Powerful Victory
Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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Necessary Philosophy
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Goodness Passion Revolution
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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Government Liberty Power Principle
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Authority Nature War
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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Born Community People Rich
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Blessing Money Perspective
A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of Government.
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Ambition Appearance Danger Government People Right

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