All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass… — 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
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their… — 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
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. — 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 multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is… — 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
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of… — 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
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
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
...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
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass… — 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
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. — 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
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
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
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the… — 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
[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
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — 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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