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Free Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk…
- No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
- A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete…
- If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would…
- Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.
- A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any…
- The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the…
- A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
- 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…
- Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.…
- Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to…
- In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in…
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- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
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