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Policy Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than…
- To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under…
- Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
- States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.
- 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…
- 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…
- There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a…
- War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
- By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline…
- The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.
- Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
- They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.
- 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.
- The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
- The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
- The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against…
- That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.
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