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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Alexander Hamilton

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Act Brave Fun Liberty Nature Rise
The masses are asses.
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People Savage
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Goodness Passion Revolution
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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Affection Care Yourself
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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Citizenship Enjoyment Oneself Protection Purpose Right
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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Equality Freedom Slave
An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.
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Government Liberty Power Principle
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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Design Loyalty Man People
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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Advice Body Independence Mindset Strong Weapon
The honor of a nation is its life.
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Life Nation
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Avoid Best Philosophy
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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Government Respect Right Strong Yourself
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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Business Practice Time Tolerance
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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Enemy Government Responsible
Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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Necessary Philosophy
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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Ambition Appearance Danger Government People Right

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

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