It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence,… — 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
It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue;… — 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
Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself? — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the… — 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
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs — 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
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning… — 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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