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Mean Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never…
- The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin…
- Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?
- ... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means…
- These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the…
- There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil…
- If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected?…
- By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it…
- The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the…
- It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would…
- It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our…
- The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices…
- Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his…
- Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that…
- Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means…
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- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams