Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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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. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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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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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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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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The masses are asses.
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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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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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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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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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