Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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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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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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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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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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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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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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
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