Quotes from Alexander Hamilton

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

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 Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.

For 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.

Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

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

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.