All Alexander Hamilton Quotes
- Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people,… Begun
- If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it… Appeal
- What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their… Anguish
- The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished… Awful
- It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their… Advantage
- As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from… Danger
- It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself,… Any
- If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when… Any
- There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much… Administration
- There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does… Any
- Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence. Careful
- States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct. Conduct
- The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the… Adequate
- Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting… Able
- There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a… Absurd
- War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice. Acquired
- By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline… Able
- The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land. All
- Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith. Contracts
- They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. Agreement
- A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit. Concern
- Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness. Every Nation
- [H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties. Country
- The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A… All
- I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only… Account