480 Quotes by Alexander Hamilton

It is very extraordinary, if the head of the money department of a country, being unprincipled enough to sacrifice his trust and his integrity, could not have contrived objects of profit sufficiently large to have engaged the co-operation of men of far greater importance than Reynolds, and with whom there could have been due safety, and should have been driven to the necessity of unkennelling such a reptile to be the instrument of his cupidity.

I cannot make everybody else as rapid as myself.

No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.

If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.

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

If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens little if at all inferior to them in discipline and

Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind.

There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to the formation, direction, or support of the NATIONAL FORCES.

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