Alexander Hamilton Quote

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.


The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton (ed. 1842)


When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper...

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper...

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper...

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper...