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 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 masses are asses.
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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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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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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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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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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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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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Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
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