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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
— Alexander Hamilton
The deliberative sense of the community should govern.
— Alexander Hamilton
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
— Alexander Hamilton
Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water
— Alexander Hamilton
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
— Alexander Hamilton
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.
— Alexander Hamilton
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
— Alexander Hamilton
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
— Alexander Hamilton
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
— Alexander Hamilton
If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.
— Alexander Hamilton
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
— Alexander Hamilton
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.
— Alexander Hamilton
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
— Alexander Hamilton
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
— Alexander Hamilton
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
— Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
— Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
— Will Rogers
I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation
— Alexander Hamilton
That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.
— Alexander Hamilton
And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
— Alexander Hamilton
The superiority ... enjoyed by nations that have ... perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a ... formidable obstacle.
— Alexander Hamilton
The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.
— Alexander Hamilton
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?
— Alexander Hamilton
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
— Alexander Hamilton
The masses are asses.
— Alexander Hamilton
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.
— Alexander Hamilton
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
— Alexander Hamilton
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
— Alexander Hamilton
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.
— Alexander Hamilton
A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
— Alexander Hamilton
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
— Alexander Hamilton
The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
— Alexander Hamilton
A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.
— Alexander Hamilton
The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.
— Alexander Hamilton
The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
— Alexander Hamilton
As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
— Alexander Hamilton
Americans could achieve Jefferson's democratic freedoms through Hamilton's economic development strategies and trade policies.
— Patrick Mendis
The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.
— Alexander Hamilton
The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
— Alexander Hamilton
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
— Alexander Hamilton
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[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory — Lin-Manuel Miranda
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.
— Alexander Hamilton
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
— Alexander Hamilton
Here sir, the people govern.
— Alexander Hamilton
A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.
— Alexander Hamilton
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands ... the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
— Alexander Hamilton
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
— Alexander Hamilton
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
— Alexander Hamilton
But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
— Alexander Hamilton
Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
— Alexander Hamilton
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[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government ...
— Alexander Hamilton
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
— Alexander Hamilton
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!
— Alexander Hamilton
I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
— Alexander Hamilton
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[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.
— Alexander Hamilton
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The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction ...
— Alexander Hamilton
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
— Alexander Hamilton
The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.
— Alexander Hamilton
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
— Alexander Hamilton
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people
— Alexander Hamilton
If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
— Alexander Hamilton
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.
— Alexander Hamilton
The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.
— Alexander Hamilton
Best of wives and best of women.
— Alexander Hamilton
I think the first duty of society is justice.
— Alexander Hamilton
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
— Alexander Hamilton
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
— Alexander Hamilton
A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.
— Alexander Hamilton
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[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
— Alexander Hamilton
Learn to think continentally.
— Alexander Hamilton
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
— Alexander Hamilton
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.
— Alexander Hamilton
The powers contained in a constitution ... ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.
— Alexander Hamilton
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
— Alexander Hamilton
The constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
— Alexander Hamilton
Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.
— Alexander Hamilton
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
— Alexander Hamilton
War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
— Alexander Hamilton
Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American ground?
— Alexander Hamilton
The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.
— Alexander Hamilton
Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.
— Alexander Hamilton
Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
— Alexander Hamilton
CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.
— Alexander Hamilton
the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism,
— Alexander Hamilton
Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)
— Ron Chernow
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.
— Alexander Hamilton
The multitude ... have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them ... It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.
— Alexander Hamilton
In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton
— Ron Chernow
Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
— Alexander Hamilton
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
— Alexander Hamilton
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
— Alexander Hamilton
Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
— Alexander Hamilton
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
— Alexander Hamilton
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.
— Alexander Hamilton
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[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty ...
— Alexander Hamilton
