"Divide et impera must be the motto of……" — Alexander Hamilton
"Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us."
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352 Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious…
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error…
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Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion…
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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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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge…
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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the…
— John Avlon
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
— Luis Barragan
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
— Arnold Bennett
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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out…
— Tony Blair
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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea.…
— Tony Blair
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
— H. Rap Brown
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I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
— Robert Carlyle
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a…
— Unknown Author
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