A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONA 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.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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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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Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
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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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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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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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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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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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Best of wives and best of women.
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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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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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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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