When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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The masses are asses.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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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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The honor of a nation is its life.
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The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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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.
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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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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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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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