Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Alexander Hamilton

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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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Ambition Appearance Danger Government People Right
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Myself Responsibility
Best of wives and best of women.
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Best Wife Woman
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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Choice Connection Direction Goodness Happiness Serious True
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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Force Government Law Liberty
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
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Danger Liberty Love Powerful Safety Time
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Fall Leadership
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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Human Man Nature Power Willing
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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Mistake Person
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
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
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
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
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
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
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Hate Man Planning
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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Affection Care Yourself
For 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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Equality Mad Politics Religion Weapon
Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.
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Career Friendship Myself
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Myself Responsibility
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Danger Power Safety
There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)
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Expression Fight Language Togetherness Word
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
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 Human Liberty Nature
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
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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Act Government People
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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Beginning Career End Greatness Liberty Man People
Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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Animal Man Reason

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