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Security Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- ...[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty...
- Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign…
- Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and…
- This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human…
- 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…
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
- It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford…
- The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and…
- It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is…
- It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their…
- Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.
- Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
- This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against…
- It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against…
- The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of…
- What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.
- The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make…
- 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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- Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow
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