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System 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.
- Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
- The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and…
- 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…
- Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting…
- This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against…
- To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims…
- 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…
- The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
- For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by…
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