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.
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.
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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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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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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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The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long-standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
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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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Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
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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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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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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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An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
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