All Alexander Hamilton Quotes
- The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable… All
- There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered… Advocate
- Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see… Admiration
- By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it… Active
- To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… Activity
- Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them… Augmentation
- The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not… All
- Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of… Adopt
- The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. Brook
- It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and… Altogether
- Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to… Avenge
- The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must… Act
- If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard… Adjusted
- I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which is in its… Assert
- The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and… Affect
- The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a… Administration
- It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to… Events
- [I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on… Calculate
- It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is… Apt
- The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the… Agency
- It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust. All
- If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their… Abandon
- A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any… All
- [A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . . Contingency
- A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all… Able