All Alexander Hamilton Quotes
- Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the… Acquit
- It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is… Ancient
- The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. Age
- If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy. Democracy
- Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself? Any
- The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection,… Alone
- What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the… Aimed
- ... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means… Age
- If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense… All
- I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government. Conformity
- These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the… Correspondent
- This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils… All
- There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to… Any
- [T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting… All
- I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree,… Afford
- If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would… Answer
- Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies… According
- To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,… Adversaries
- Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full… Assumption
- After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United… America
- While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts of… Component
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms… Attention
- The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the… Advantage
- When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government… Accomodation
- The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one… Apparent