Alexander Hamilton Quotes (55 Quotes)

The people are turbulent and changing they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good

I do not think it for the interest of the general government itself, and still less of the union at large, that the state governments should be so little respected as they have been.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

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