All Alexander Hamilton Quotes
- This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against… Appears
- Learn to think continentally. Continentally
- As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. Accumulate
- The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they… Actual
- The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service]… Actual
- Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his… Administration
- If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy. Adopted
- Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water Hawkers
- The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men. Administration
- Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep. All
- The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. American Revolution
- The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense. Common
- [E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary… Act
- To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw.… Airship
- A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. Constitution
- Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that… Consistent
- As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of… Action
- Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in… Age
- Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.… Affect
- For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another,… All
- To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims… Attempt
- In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture, materially depend, in… Aggregate
- There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit,… Destroyed
- Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. Citizens
- Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed. Aimed