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Political Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
- A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to…
- [T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting…
- The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the…
- The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare…
- The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source…
- Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of…
- There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much…
- The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason…
- The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
- 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…
- Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from…
- If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked…
- The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican…
- It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our…
- As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
- It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against…
- Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom…
- A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
- It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example,…
- Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to…
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- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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