The constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONI 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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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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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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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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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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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