All Alexander Hamilton Quotes
- To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under… Appears
- The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a… Abolition
- There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil… Administration
- I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to… Administration
- The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all… Administration
- The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be particularized without involving… Administration
- It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness… Administered
- The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare… Aim
- It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which… Advert
- Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would… Constitutional
- The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in… Administration
- There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether… Any
- As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to… Able
- 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 most… All
- If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected?… Answer
- It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford… Able
- It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… Accomplished
- And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious,… Accumulation
- Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices. Abridge
- Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state. Agriculture
- The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source… Accordingly
- The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage. Advantage
- But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it was before unknown,… Aids
- There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made… Activity
- The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its… Agriculture