Best Quotes by Alexander Hamilton (Top 10)
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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
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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
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
Alexander Hamilton
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
Alexander Hamilton
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton
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It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
Alexander Hamilton
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
Alexander Hamilton
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The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.
Alexander Hamilton
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton
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I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
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Learn to think continentally.
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In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
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Ah, this is the constitution,he said. Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer
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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.
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Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
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Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton