There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . . — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a… — 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 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
There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for… — 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
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the… — 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
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is… — 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
The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be… — 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
After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on… — 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
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
This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty;… — 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… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust… — 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
“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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