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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONThe 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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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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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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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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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Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants.
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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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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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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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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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