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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONTo 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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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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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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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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Best of wives and best of women.
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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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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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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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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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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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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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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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