More - Alexander Hamilton Quotes

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

Alexander Hamilton

 American Politician

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton

 American Politician

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing

Alexander Hamilton

 Firmness

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will

Alexander Hamilton

 Power

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

Alexander Hamilton

 American Politician

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

Alexander Hamilton

 American Politician Debt

[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution. But this doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton

 Constitution

When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.

Alexander Hamilton

 Constitution

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

Alexander Hamilton

 Reason

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

 American Politician Power