A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONLet 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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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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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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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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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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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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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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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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A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of Government.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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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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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