Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Alexander Hamilton Quotes Click here for Alexander Hamilton books Alexander Hamilton: Writings (Library of America) "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." "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this." "If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws." "The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled." "Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society." "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." "We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments." "The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint." "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." "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." "Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things." "I think the first duty of society is justice." "It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." "Learn to think continentally." "There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism." "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." 
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