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Inspirational Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
- No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
- The first duty of society is justice.
- We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
- The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
- Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
- If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.
- It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.
- [A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .
- Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
- Here sir, the people govern.
- It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.
- People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.
- Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
- Learn to think continentally.
- Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water
- Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.
- The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.
- When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
- Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
- Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
- The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
- Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
- Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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