Quotes from Alexander Hamilton

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

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

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

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 or obscured by mortal power.

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.

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

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.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.

Learn to think continentally.