Alexander Hamilton quotes

" A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. " # Danger

" A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. " # Debt

" It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government, " # Government # Tyranny # Desire

" We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. " # Adaptability

" I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. " # Uncategorised # Perfection # Work

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

" I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Politics # Freedom

" For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests. " # Sincerity # self-esteem # God

" Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. " # Firmness

" Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. " # Genius # Freedom # Power