"Every nation ought to have a right to……" — Alexander Hamilton
"Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness."
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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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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
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Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
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Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are…
— Hillary Clinton
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Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and…
— Kofi Annan
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I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this…
— Montel Williams
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life.…
— Samuel Johnson
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Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has…
— Thomas Paine
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Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues…
— Elie Wiesel
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When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The…
— George W. Bush
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I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power…
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