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Proportion Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- 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…
- 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…
- It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which…
- The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and…
- The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the…
More Proportion Quotes
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton
- I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it… — Emile M. Cioran
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright