There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are… — 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
![“Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see the profits of our trade snatched from us, to enrich our enemies and persecutors. That unequalled spirit of enterprise . . . an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would…” quote by Alexander Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/308/alexander-hamilton-619_admiration_passive-commerce-should-thus-compel-us-t_952757.jpg)
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