A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

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.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

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.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

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.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

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.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

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.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

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.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

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.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

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

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote