Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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 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 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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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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The very aim and intention of the democratical part, or the house of commons, is to secure the rights of the people. It’s very being depends upon those rights. Its whole power is derived from them, and must be terminated by them.
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Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.
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Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
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The constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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