Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union… — 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 local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything… — 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
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
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
If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal… — 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 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
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
[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be… — 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
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty 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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