It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the… — 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
When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be… — 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
If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable… — 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
The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits… — 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
Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — 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… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other,… — 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
It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of… — 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
A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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