The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONNobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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There 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.
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