Alexander Hamilton

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

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.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

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.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

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.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism

Learn to think continentally.

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

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.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy__ot that this is the intention of the generality of them. Yet it would not be difficult to lay the finger upon some of their party who may justly be suspected. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits__espotic in his ordinary demeanour__nown to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty__hen such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity__o join in the cry of danger to liberty__o take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion__o flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day__t may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may __ide the storm and direct the whirlwind.

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion.