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“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Christian #Patriotic #Men
“The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Men #Administration #Constitution
“The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Strong #Exercise #Rights
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Peace #Good Life #War
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Gun #People #Gun Control
“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Mistake #Women #Nervous
“Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Running #Powerful #War
“In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Power #Men #Support
“The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Government #Law #Liberty
“Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Horse #Republic #Influence
“It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#War #Authority #Increase
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Hero #Patriotic #Bravery
“It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Patriotic #Government #Desire
“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

#Passion #Men #Justice
“It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Country #Reflection #Men
“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

#Change #Constitution #Reason
“If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last . . . . A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Government #Law #Energy
“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

#Power #Rights #Hands
“Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#People #Littles
“[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Political #Constitution #Amendments
“[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Men #People #Acting
“As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Real #Hands #Luxury
“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Lying #Science #Night
“Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Giving
“Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command or exact obedience from him, except that which arose from the ties of consanguinity.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Men #Ties #Liberty
“Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Agriculture #Wealth #Prosperity
“The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#People #Fabric #Empires
“Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Wise #Men #Rights
“Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too high, the other will be weakened too much. It is the happiest possible mode of conciliating these objects, to institute one branch peculiarly endowed with sensibility, another with knowledge and firmness. Through the opposition and mutual control of these bodies, the government will reach, in its regular operations, the perfect balance between liberty and power.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Government #Perfect #Liberty
“States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.”
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Fate #Opposites #Engagement

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