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Executives Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign…
- It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never…
- Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a…
- The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience…
- . . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the…
- It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports…
- It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
- That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well…
- A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill…
- In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the…
- [W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of…
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