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State Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition…
- Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least…
- The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has…
- It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions…
- As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful…
- 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 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 local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one…
- The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
- There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil…
- I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to…
- The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all…
- 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…
- 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…
- Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would…
- The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in…
- Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
- 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…
- It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and…
- It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself,…
More State Quotes
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- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson