All Alexander Hamilton Quotes
- To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform… Accumulated
- The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. Armed
- ...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at… All
- To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. Calculate
- As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful… Accumulate
- This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human… Accomplish
- To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. Ambitious
- These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. Affair
- The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of… Brought
- It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt… Abstraction
- It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still… Admonition
- The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have… Afflicting
- The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of… Accounted
- Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence. Authority
- Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A… Affection
- The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. Human Nature
- Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy. Bond
- Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous. Correspondingly
- With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant,… Appear
- Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example… Example
- Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence?… Affirmative
- When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would… Apprehension
- The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded. Constitutional
- A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to… Association
- There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist. Contagion