"[A] power equal to every possible contingency must……" — Alexander Hamilton
"[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . ."
—
Alexander Hamilton
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
352 Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton has 352 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to…
-
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious…
-
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
-
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
-
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error…
-
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
-
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion…
-
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
-
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
-
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
-
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious…
-
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge…
See all 352 quotes by Alexander Hamilton »
More Contingency Quotes
This quote is filed under Contingency Quotes,
one of 60 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
-
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed…
— Alex Kozinski
-
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of…
— Sun Tzu
-
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
— B.F. Skinner
-
Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a…
— Randy Pausch
-
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted…
— Stephen Batchelor
-
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
— B.F. Skinner
-
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will…
— Dan Quayle
-
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from…
— Alain Badiou
-
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing,…
— Manuel De Landa
-
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
See all 60 Contingency Quotes »