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
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 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
In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture,… — 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 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
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
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 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
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a… — 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
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
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — 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 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
The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal… — 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 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
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
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
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
The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — 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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