The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONAll communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
-
-
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
Best of wives and best of women.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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 -
The very aim and intention of the democratical part, or the house of commons, is to secure the rights of the people. It’s very being depends upon those rights. Its whole power is derived from them, and must be terminated by them.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
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 -
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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 -
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON -
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON