Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONFor 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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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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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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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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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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.
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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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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There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)
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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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The masses are asses.
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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The honor of a nation is its life.
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