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One 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…
- 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…
- Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.
- The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has…
- That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and…
- The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin…
- 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…
- It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt…
- 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?…
- It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is…
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
- The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one…
- There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil…
- There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether…
- 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…
- I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which is in its…
- It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is…
- What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their…
- Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting…
- The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements…
- It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose…
- Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too…
- 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…
- The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be…
- The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain…
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