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For 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.

Alexander Hamilton

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Act Brave Fun Liberty Nature Rise
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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Learning Myself Opinion Value
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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Born Community People Rich
The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
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Citizenship Enemy Excitement Right
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
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Hate Man Planning
The masses are asses.
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People Savage
The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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Power Respect Right Weakness
Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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Government Liberty Security
Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
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Animal Man Reason
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Avoid Best Philosophy
Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Government Liberty Security
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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Divine Hands Human Right Writing
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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Enemy Government People
An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.
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Government Liberty Power Principle
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Animal Government Man Passion Reason
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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Body Oppression

For 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.

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For 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.

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