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Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.

Alexander Hamilton

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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Advice Body Independence Mindset Strong Weapon
A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.
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Business Practice Time Tolerance
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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Government Ideas Law Power Punishment Word
Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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Necessary Philosophy
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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Government Respect Right Strong Yourself
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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Act Government People
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Act Brave Fun Liberty Nature Rise
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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Art Reading
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Animal Government Man Passion Reason
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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Body Oppression
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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Community Government Happiness Oppression Power
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Avoid Best Philosophy
A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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Powerful Victory
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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Authority Nature War
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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Change Necessary Possible Reason
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Blessing Money Perspective

Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.

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Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.

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