"I would die to preserve the law upon……" — Alexander Hamilton
"I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed."
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352 Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
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- 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…
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