The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me… — 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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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 Image
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