People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual… — 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
The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on… — 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 inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[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
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of… — 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… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — 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
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it… — 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
[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists. — 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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