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
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
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a… — 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
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
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. — 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
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
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself? — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate… — 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
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. — 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
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
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
I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government. — 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
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
The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible… — 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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