Politics Quotes by Alexander Hamilton

The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

— Alexander Hamilton

Here sir, the people govern.

— Alexander Hamilton

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

— Alexander Hamilton

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

— Alexander Hamilton

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

— Alexander Hamilton

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

— Alexander Hamilton

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

— Alexander Hamilton

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

— Alexander Hamilton

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

— Alexander Hamilton

“Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.”

— Alexander Hamilton

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality…

— Alexander Hamilton

The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow…

— Alexander Hamilton

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise…

— Alexander Hamilton

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford…

— Alexander Hamilton

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting…

— Alexander Hamilton

I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which…

— Alexander Hamilton

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that…

— Alexander Hamilton

The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible…

— Alexander Hamilton

It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and…

— Alexander Hamilton

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration.…

— Alexander Hamilton

The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body.…

— Alexander Hamilton

Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the…

— Alexander Hamilton

If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure that…

— Alexander Hamilton

The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a…

— Alexander Hamilton

In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is…

— Alexander Hamilton

“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that,…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to…

— Alexander Hamilton

Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of…

— Alexander Hamilton

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

— Alexander Hamilton

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

— Alexander Hamilton

...[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty...

— Alexander Hamilton

After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution…

— Alexander Hamilton

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine…

— Alexander Hamilton

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ…

— Alexander Hamilton