480 Quotes by Alexander Hamilton

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

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

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable thegovernment to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.

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

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.