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Against Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign…
- Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the…
- The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a…
- It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to…
- What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their…
- It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their…
- If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when…
- As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and…
- Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.
- The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against…
- If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a…
- Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
- This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against…
- It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
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- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
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