On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.


Sir William Hamilton

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ALEXANDER HAMILTON
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The first step must be, of course, an inquiry into the extent of our industrial sickness, and he det...
ALICE HAMILTON
Surely there is every reason why we should devote to this disease the same intelligence and energy t...
ALICE HAMILTON
No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
ALICE HAMILTON
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the P...
ALICE HAMILTON
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States und...
ALICE HAMILTON
Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation...
ALICE HAMILTON
From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men w...
ALICE HAMILTON
Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
ALICE HAMILTON
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of...
ALICE HAMILTON
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little gi...
BETHANY HAMILTON
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON
It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of any individual without...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON
Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them prope...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations...
VIJALI HAMILTON
" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuou...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
SCOTT HAMILTON
I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing ...
HUGO HAMILTON