Contingency Quote by Alexander Hamilton

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

— Samuel Williams

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the…

— Alexander Hamilton

[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to…

— James Madison

Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced,…

— Michel Foucault

These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and…

— Alexander Hamilton

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

There will be found to exist at all times an imperious necessity for restraining all the functionaries of the Government within the range of…

— John Tyler

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

— Alexander Hamilton

[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right,…

— James Madison

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type…

— Mao Zedong

“Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be”

— James Russell Lowell

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

— Swami Vivekananda