Famous Quotes
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Alexander Hamilton
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton
The honor of a nation is its life.
Alexander Hamilton
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
Alexander Hamilton
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
Alexander Hamilton
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Alexander Hamilton
A promise must never be broken.
Alexander Hamilton
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Alexander Hamilton
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Alexander Hamilton
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
Alexander Hamilton
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
Alexander Hamilton
