« All Provisions Quotes · Alexander Hamilton's Page
Provisions Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,…
- The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not…
- [I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on…
- 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…
- Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change…
More Provisions Quotes
- Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in… — Kathleen Brown
- We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people… — Ronald Reagan
- I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. — Mark Twain
- If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of… — Abraham Lincoln
- When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no… — Abraham Lincoln
- ... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude… — Kenneth E. Boulding
- No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during… — Roger Brooke Taney
- If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and… — John R. Lott Jr.
- I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however… — Hasan of Basra
- The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of… — Thomas Jefferson