Alexander Hamilton Quotes

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- Alexander Hamilton

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- Alexander Hamilton

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

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.
- Alexander Hamilton

But there is no truth, which may be more firmly relied upon, than that the interests of the revennue are promoted, by whatever promotes an increase of National industry and wealth.
- Alexander Hamilton

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
- Alexander Hamilton

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.
- Alexander Hamilton

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
- Alexander Hamilton

It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.
- Alexander Hamilton

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
- Alexander Hamilton

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the Legislature as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.
- Alexander Hamilton

The violent destruction of life and property incident to war and the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights.
- Alexander Hamilton

Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command or exact obedience from him, except that which arose from the ties of consanguinity.
- Alexander Hamilton

This reflection derives additional strength from the nature of the debt of the United States. It was the price of liberty. The faith of America has been repeatedly pledged for it, and with solemnities, that give peculiar force to the obligation of paying off the debt.
- Alexander Hamilton

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
- Alexander Hamilton

America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me. You let me make a difference. A place where even orphan immigrants can leave their fingerprints and rise up.
- Alexander Hamilton

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
- Alexander Hamilton

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.
- Alexander Hamilton

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
- Alexander Hamilton

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
- Alexander Hamilton

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
- Alexander Hamilton

There are men who, under any circumstances, will have the courage to do their duty at every hazard.
- Alexander Hamilton

The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.
- Alexander Hamilton