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Mankind Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind…
- Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
- Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
- In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men…
- [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…
- Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.
- The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.
- That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of…
- 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…
- The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have…
- 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…
- 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…
- Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that…
- 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…
- The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in…
- To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human…
- The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in…
More Mankind Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams