Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.
Alexander Hamilton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alexander Hamilton
Respect
Littles
Little
Militia
People
Aimed
Reasonably
Armed
Properly
Large
More quotes by Alexander Hamilton
What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.
Alexander Hamilton
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities.
Alexander Hamilton
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Alexander Hamilton
It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.
Alexander Hamilton
The people are turbulent and changing they seldom judge right or make good decision.
Alexander Hamilton
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.
Alexander Hamilton
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.
Alexander Hamilton
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.
Alexander Hamilton
The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin to a zeal for liberty more ardent than enlightened.
Alexander Hamilton
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
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Alexander Hamilton
There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.
Alexander Hamilton
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
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander Hamilton
If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the few. It ought to be in the hands of both, and be separated...they will need a mutual check. This check is a monarch.
Alexander Hamilton
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.
Alexander Hamilton
Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water
Alexander Hamilton
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
Alexander Hamilton
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
Alexander Hamilton
When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.
Alexander Hamilton