“The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
“The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.”
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”
“The art of reading is to skip judiciously.”
“It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.”
“I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.”
“A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician.”
“A well-regulated militia is a proper defense against sudden foreign invasions.”
“If we must have an enemy at the head of the government, let it be one whom we can look at without abhorrence.”
“We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.”
“Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.”
“The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people.”
“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
“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 or obscured by mortal power.”
“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”
“Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.”
“I think the first duty of society is justice.”
“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.”
“A nation, without a national government, is, in my view, an awful spectacle.”
“Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.”
“The vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.”
“The truth is, 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.”
“I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
“I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
“The constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.”
“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.”
“Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for everything. Strut is good for nothing.”
“The judiciary…has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither force nor will, but merely judgment.”
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Alexander Hamilton Quotes :
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.”
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.”
“A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.”
“Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.”
“A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”
“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.”
“Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.”
“Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.”
“You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.”
“Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.”
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
“To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.”
“It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.”
“The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people.”
“To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.”
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“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.”