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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may…
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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 is that…
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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 to the…
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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 control over…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide…
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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
— Konrad Adenauer
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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for…
— Edmund Burke
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It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever…
— John Jay Chapman
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Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol,…
— Harry S. Truman
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Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are…
— John F. Kennedy
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
— Washington Irving
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The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
— Gustav Stresemann
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When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for…
— George Washington
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