The masses are asses.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONI have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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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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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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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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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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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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Best of wives and best of women.
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.
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Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape?
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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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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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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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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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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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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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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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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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Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you.
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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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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
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