480 Quotes by Alexander Hamilton

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

...[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

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