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Natural Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
- A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of…
- Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
- [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…
- These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
- Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
- 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…
- The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.
- If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when…
- I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the…
- If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them…
- The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which should…
- The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
- 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…
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