List of Alexander Hamilton Quotes

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Alexander Hamilton
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The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.
Safety Care Infinite
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
War Loss Men
The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.
Branches Obstacles Formidable
With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant, and learned classes in legislative assembly]. will not the man of the learned profession, who will feel a neutrality to the rivalships between the different branches of industry, be likely to prove an impartial arbiter between them, ready to promote either, so far as it shall appear to him conducive to the general interests of society?
Men Class Different
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
Men May Human Nature
I propose . . . . the conformity of the proposed constitution to the true principles of republican government.
Republican Government Principles Conformity
If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the few. it ought to be in the hands of both, and be separated...they will need a mutual check. this check is a monarch.
Government Hands Needs
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
Country Views Permit
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money. transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. the same thing would, in all probability, happen here, under the like circumstances.
Country Purpose Debt
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential that the credit of a nation should be well established.
Hands Essentials Credit
It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a king of great britain and a magistrate of the character marked out for that of the president of the united states. it is still more impossible to withhold that imputation from the rash and barefaced expedients which have been employed to give success to the attempted imposition.
Kings Character Giving
The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the union.
Independence Unions States
  • Born: January 11, 1757
  • Died: July 12, 1804
  • Occupation: Founding Father Of The United States
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