Alexander Hamilton Quotes

Alexander Hamilton Quotes.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
Alexander Hamilton
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.
Alexander Hamilton
It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.
Alexander Hamilton
That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.
Alexander Hamilton
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. 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.
Alexander Hamilton
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
Alexander Hamilton
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than de

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
Alexander Hamilton
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
Alexander Hamilton
When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.
Alexander Hamilton
Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.
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
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Alexander Hamilton
Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.
Alexander Hamilton
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton