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Rights Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- [If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole…
- The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of…
- ... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means…
- 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 tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its…
- Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to…
- 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…
- The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A…
- I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only…
- An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will…
- The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience…
- 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…
- But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of…
- 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…
- To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
- Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that…
- Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in…
- Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
- The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of…
- The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in…
- 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…
- In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in…
- Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must…
- The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in…
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