25 Quotations by Alexander Hamilton
- 1. A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
- 2. A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
- 3. Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be ...
- 4. Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
- 5. Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private in ...
- 6. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in thi ...
- 7. In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his ...
- 8. It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect governme ...
- 9. It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
- 10. It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the p ...
- 11. Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be ...
- 12. Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
- 13. Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
- 14. Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I ...
- 15. Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may ha ...
- 16. Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
- 17. Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
- 18. Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit ...
- 19. The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed he ...
- 20. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the f ...
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