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Nation Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- 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…
- As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to…
- It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of…
- 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,…
- [I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on…
- 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…
- 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…
- A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.
- Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
- As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and…
- The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
- Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
- 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,…
- For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another,…
- 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…
- In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its…
- A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
- The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
- The honor of a nation is its life.
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