The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all… — 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
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
[In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost… — 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
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their… — 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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