Words matter. These are the best Alexander Hamilton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
The honor of a nation is its life.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Learn to think continentally.
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
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.
A promise must never be broken.
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
