It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over… — 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
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — 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
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide… — 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
“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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