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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Alexander Hamilton

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Act Government People
Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Government Liberty Security
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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Citizenship Peace People
The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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Equality Pain Peace Preparation Responsibility War
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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Learning Myself Opinion Value
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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Power Respect Right Weakness
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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Government Justice Man Passion Reason
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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Enough Evil Imperfection Promise Seen Weakness
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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Best Hope People
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Avoid Best Philosophy
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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Enemy Government People
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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Body Oppression
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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Control Difficult Government Man
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Authority Nature War
The masses are asses.
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People Savage
Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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Animal Man Reason

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