Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head,… — 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
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand,… — 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
There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed… — 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
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable… — 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