[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties. Alexander Hamilton More Quotes by Alexander Hamilton More Quotes From Alexander Hamilton That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind. Alexander Hamilton adages human-nature parent We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare. Alexander Hamilton welfare constitution party I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. Alexander Hamilton perfect work men Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants. Alexander Hamilton tyrants careers men Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free. Alexander Hamilton powerful running war Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. Alexander Hamilton passion justice men If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them. Alexander Hamilton taxation citizens class In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. Alexander Hamilton government religious rights To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood. Alexander Hamilton office giving blood A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry. Alexander Hamilton spurs unions blessing Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. Alexander Hamilton body age fifty Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations. Alexander Hamilton practice education men And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. Alexander Hamilton i-have-learned opinion long This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them. Alexander Hamilton government powerful rights Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. Alexander Hamilton mankind human-nature passion [If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice. Alexander Hamilton race rights people The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family. Alexander Hamilton bias-and-prejudice safety country Here sir, the people govern. Alexander Hamilton representatives people Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy. Alexander Hamilton ambition law character Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice? Alexander Hamilton human-nature passion justice
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