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Common Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and…
- As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful…
- Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.
- This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils…
- There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does…
- Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a…
- 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…
- There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective…
- There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such…
- The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.
- As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of…
- The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption…
More Common Quotes
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- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — Dan Aykroyd
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
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