"Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade……" — Alexander Hamilton
"Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government."
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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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More Foreigners Quotes
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My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.
— Brigitte Bardot
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make…
— Steven Biko
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If…
— Harry Browne
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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
— Michael Caine
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In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a…
— Margaret Cho
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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers.…
— John Henrik Clarke
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There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as…
— J. William Fulbright
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or…
— Margaret Mead
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America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him…
— Max Lerner
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The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to…
— Yao Ming
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