It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and… — 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
[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing… — 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
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
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality,… — 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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