In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
Interpretation
A nation's needs will always match its available resources.
This quote by Alexander Hamilton suggests that as a nation develops, its essential requirements will align with the resources it possesses at any given time. It highlights a dynamic relationship between a nation's aspirations and its capabilities, implying that growth and progress are inherently balanced by available means and necessities.
In practice
This quote can be used during a speech about national development and resource management.
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
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It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
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The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
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To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it.
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being.
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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
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