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Conduct Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than…
- Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk…
- The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests…
- 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…
- 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?…
- 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…
- States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.
- There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective…
- The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make…
- It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example,…
- The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their…
- Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to…
- Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to…
- It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide…
More Conduct Quotes
- Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. — Jane Austen
- Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura
- The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. — Dave Barry
- Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. — Hans Bender
- Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. — Pope Benedict XVI
- It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes. — Joe Biden
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude,… — Jacqueline Bisset
- Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And… — Andrea Bocelli
- How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one… — Jo Brand
- The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also… — John O. Brennan
- The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in… — Jacob Bronowski