In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONTo all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Best of wives and best of women.
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A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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The very aim and intention of the democratical part, or the house of commons, is to secure the rights of the people. It’s very being depends upon those rights. Its whole power is derived from them, and must be terminated by them.
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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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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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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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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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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The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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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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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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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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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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