I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good. — 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
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition… — 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
A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision… — 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
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial,… — 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
“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
“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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
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
A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
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