When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the… — 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
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
Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my… — 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 would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to… — 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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