Alexander Hamilton Quote

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.


The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States (ed. 1864)


Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.