It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence,… — 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
It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and… — 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
That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party, and in order to… — 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 great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the… — 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
The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government. — 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
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
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me… — 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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