Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONNobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
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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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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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Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants.
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The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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