The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger… — 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
“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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