Attention Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge…

— Alexander Hamilton

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

— Alexander Hamilton

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will…

— Alexander Hamilton

And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual,…

— Alexander Hamilton

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it…

— Alexander Hamilton

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

— Ramsey Clark

Including everyone in the economic, wealth-creating life of the nation is today the best way for Labor (Australian Labor Party) to meet its twin…

— Julia Gillard

To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the…

— Lajos Kossuth

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.

— Swami Vivekananda

“More generally, confidence that an investment of labor and resources could claim its reward-whether at harvest time or when dividends were issued years later-has…

— Thomas Sowell

But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand…

— Phil Zimmermann