Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONYou should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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The masses are asses.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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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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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A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.
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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
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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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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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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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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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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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