Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for… — 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
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well… — 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
That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on… — 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 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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