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 HAMILTONThe art of reading is to skip judiciously.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
-
-
If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
A strong body makes the mind strong, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of Government.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
The government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions – a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism- the last, of liberty.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON