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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.

Alexander Hamilton

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Act Government People
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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Fall Leadership
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
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Danger Liberty Love Powerful Safety Time
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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Design Loyalty Man People
I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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Expectation Imperfection Man Myself Perfection
The government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions – a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism- the last, of liberty.
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Force Government Law Liberty
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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Best Hope People
Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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Animal Man Reason
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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Affection Care Yourself
Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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Government Liberty Security
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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Ambition Hope Option Ourselves Peace War
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Avoid Best Philosophy
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. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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Choice Connection Direction Goodness Happiness Serious True
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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Learning Myself Opinion Value
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
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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Mad Politics Religious Weapon

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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