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.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONConstitutions 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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 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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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
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Dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
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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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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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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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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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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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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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