Quotes from Alexander Hamilton, Quotable Quotes famous American

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national

blessing.

A promise must never be broken.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice

without getting nervous.

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.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate

representatives.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men

over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable

the government to control the governed, and in the next place,

oblige it to control itself.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making

proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be

cured by persecution.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's

subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support

(salary) is a power over his will.

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.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It

is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this

country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would

receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

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.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God;

and, however

generally this maxim has been quoted and

believed, it is not true to fact. The

people are turbulent and

changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human

nature rise above

itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no

bounds of

moderation.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the

passions of man will

not conform to the dictates of reason and

justice without constraint.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal

into my

affections without my consent.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Learn to think continentally.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no

agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by

those whom they dislike.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

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