The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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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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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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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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.
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
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