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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command or exact obedience from him, except that which arose from the ties of consanguinity (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
To presume a want of motives for such contests... would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
These are not vague inferences... but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind! (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Jurors should acquit, even against the judge’s instruction... if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself? (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential that the credit of a nation should be well established (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)