War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“ Real firmness is good for every thing— Strut is good for nothing.” — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely… — 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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