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(1755–1804) The first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher.

The Constitution is the standard

The present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes — rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 20, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories ConstitutionTags Alexander Hamilton

Destructive government

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 3, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories rebellionTags Alexander Hamilton

Real liberty

We are now forming a Republican form of government. Real Liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of dictatorship.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 23, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories ConstitutionTags Alexander Hamilton

An association of states

If the Constitution is adopted the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States of a Confederacy.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 21, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories ConstitutionTags Alexander Hamilton

Be firm

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

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories strengthTags Alexander Hamilton

Not invented here

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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories intoleranceTags Alexander Hamilton

Neutrality requires strength

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories strengthTags Alexander Hamilton

Power over men

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

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories decentralizationTags Alexander Hamilton

Stand for something

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories convictionTags Alexander Hamilton

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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