The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call. Alexander Hamilton More Quotes by Alexander Hamilton More Quotes From Alexander Hamilton If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority. Alexander Hamilton compass constitution may Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power. Alexander Hamilton government nature mean But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth; yet by serving as a New power in the operation of industry, it has within certain bounds a tendency to increase the real wealth of a Community, in like manner as money borrowed by a thrifty farmer, to be laid out in the improvement of his farm may, in the end, add to his Stock of real riches. Alexander Hamilton community real add [In the event of war, Americans would] 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 rights running war The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle. Alexander Hamilton formidable obstacles branches [S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts. Alexander Hamilton debt policy practice The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all those things in short which are proper to be provided for by local legislation, can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction . . . the attempt to exercise these powers would be as troublesome as it would be nugatory; and the possession of them, for that reason, would contribute nothing to the dignity, to the importance, or to the splendour of the national government. Alexander Hamilton agriculture government exercise There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist. Alexander Hamilton example mind men A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association. Alexander Hamilton political association law The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep and solemn conviction in the public mind, that greater energy of government is essential to the welfare and prosperity of the community Alexander Hamilton community government america These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. Alexander Hamilton affair progress human-nature To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages. Alexander Hamilton independent age numbers The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a president of the United States. Alexander Hamilton president wise war It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust. Alexander Hamilton execution ought government [A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . . Alexander Hamilton contingency equal government A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences. Alexander Hamilton republic support government To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. Alexander Hamilton political spring character What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statutes the next. Alexander Hamilton passion government people The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons. Alexander Hamilton small-numbers character commitment There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does not yield an equal and coincident benefit. For it is an observation as true, as it is trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money. Alexander Hamilton yield doe men
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