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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 we suppose mankind…
- Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than…
- A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of…
- It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.
- Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
- The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
- It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is…
- What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the…
- Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
- The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be particularized without involving…
- Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would…
- 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…
- I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only…
- An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will…
- Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
- 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.…
- Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.
- The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same…
- The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of…
- That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has…
- When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle