These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
