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 HAMILTONExperience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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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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Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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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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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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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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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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For 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.
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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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 national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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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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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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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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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The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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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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I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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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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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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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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