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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONUnless 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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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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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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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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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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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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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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The masses are asses.
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Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape?
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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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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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