Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and… — 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
When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not… — 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
To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a… — 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
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
...[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty... — 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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