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Human Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
- Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than…
- It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
- Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our…
- [If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole…
- 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…
- 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…
- To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
- 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…
- 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…
- These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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?…
- Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
- Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.
- 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,…
- Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
- Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in…
- The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make…
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