There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow… — 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
It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford… — 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
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
That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. — 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
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
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
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 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
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
That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration.… — 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
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
There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political… — 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
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden… — 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 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
“For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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
If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative,… — 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
“An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the… — 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
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
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and… — 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
“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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
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
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
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
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
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