Alexander Hamilton Quotes
"Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Man)
"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
(Related: Men, May, Planning)
"You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Sensibility)
"Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Age, Trust, Body)
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Government, Men, Control, Difficulty, First, Lies)
"Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Power, Man, Will)
"Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Firmness, Nothing)
"The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: God, People, Fact, Maxim, Right, Voice)
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Nothing)
"When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Men, Moderation)
"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Government, Justice, Man, Reason, Will)
"Learn to think continentally."
- Alexander Hamilton
"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 the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Nature, Divinity, Rights, Human nature, Mankind, Old)
"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Government, Neutrality)
"In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Power, Nature, Human nature, Will)
"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Government, Desire, Tyranny)
"A promise must never be broken."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Promise)
"Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Change, Reason)
"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Debt, Will)
"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: People, Act)
"I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Work, Man)
"I think the first duty of society is justice."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Society, Duty, First, Justice)
"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Politics, Religion, Fire, Persecution)
"In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Power, Man, Support, Will)
"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
(Related: Progress, Existence, Nation, Will)
"It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Advertising, Country, Labor, Reward, Support)
"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Mistake)