Affair Quote by Alexander Hamilton Download Open image “Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs” — Alexander Hamilton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affair Governing Humans Ill Integrity Opinion Principles Wells
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
“The government of human beings, he argued, is a matter not of applying cold rules and principles, but of tending to warm sentiments and… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects… — Noah Webster Copy Share
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Government is not a human institution. It is a divine institution that humans are to run on His behalf. When they create their own… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? — James Madison Copy Share Image
The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself,… — Lewis Thomas 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
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter… — Michael Atherton Copy Share Image