Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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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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The constitution shall never be construed, to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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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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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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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. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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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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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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