Alexander Hamilton Quote

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.


Elliot's Debates, volume 1, p. 463. (29 July 1788)


Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe...

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe...

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe...

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe...