7 Powerful Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
- Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
- Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
- In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
- In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
- I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
- A promise must never be broken.
BONUS
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man WILL NOT conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
BONUS BONUS
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.
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