Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThere 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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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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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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 national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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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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Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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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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