Quotes from Alexander Hamilton
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
- Alexander Hamilton
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
- Alexander Hamilton
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
- Alexander Hamilton
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
- Alexander Hamilton
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.
- Alexander Hamilton
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
- Alexander Hamilton
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
- Alexander Hamilton
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
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
- Alexander Hamilton
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
- Alexander Hamilton