To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. — 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
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may… — 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
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to… — 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
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
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace… — 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
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the… — 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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