It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are… — 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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