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Body Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- ...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at…
- It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that they…
- If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them…
- The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the…
- Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
- Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too…
- It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports…
- Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to…
- All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people…
- Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
- If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties…
- A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine