Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature…Upon… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
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
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator… — 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 my language, it was from the habit of using strong phrases to express my ideas; and, above all, from the interesting nature of the subject. I have ever condemned those cold, unfeeling hearts, which no object… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
“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 so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
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 they do not possess the discernment and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are frequently led into the grossest of errors, by misinformation and passion, would be a flattery which their own good… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other… The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
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. A government continually at a distance and out of sight, can hardly be expected to interest the sensations of the people. The inference is, that the authority of the Union, and the affections of the citizens… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
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 most of the purposes of money. Transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. The same… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
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