Quotes from Alexander Hamilton

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

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 or obscured by mortal power.

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.