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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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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

[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

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. — Alexander Hamilton

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

[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

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out — Will Rogers

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

[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty ... — Alexander Hamilton

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide. — Alexander Hamilton