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The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which is in its principles a wise and good one, and vigorous in its operations (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed? (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one independent of the other (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils: And in the main it will be found, that a power over a man’s support is a power over his will (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government (Alexander Hamilton Quotes)