Alexander Hamilton Quotes

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The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

Alexander Hamilton
There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation...

Alexander Hamilton
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Alexander Hamilton
It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority.

Alexander Hamilton
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

Alexander Hamilton
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety.

Alexander Hamilton
We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

Alexander Hamilton
In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

Alexander Hamilton