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.
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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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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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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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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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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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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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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