When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only...
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 Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
ALEXANDER 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 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 Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them prope...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
ALEXANDER 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 When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchas...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I think the first duty of society is justice.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular c...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the p...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may ha...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquill...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peace...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in han...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing
ALEXANDER HAMILTON It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect governme...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dicta...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Learn to think continentally.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON decency.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I think the first duty of society is justice
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A promise must never be broken
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation
ALEXANDER HAMILTON There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments... --I mean t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In many cases, it will connect itself with preexisting factions and will enlist all the animosities,...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that arm...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, b...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them co...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the f...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The founders established a government of checks and balances so nobody could take advantage. As for ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Your people, sir, is nothing but a great beast
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and haulers of water.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The courts must declare the sense of the law and if they should be disposed exercise will, instead o...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governmen...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I inquired for Mrs. Reynolds and was shewn up stairs, at the head of which she met me and conducted ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON It is very extraordinary, if the head of the money department of a country, being unprincipled enoug...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.
ALEXANDER Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don't want to...
ALEXANDER The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
SCOTT HAMILTON If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skii...
TYLER HAMILTON You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
NATASHA HAMILTON We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!
NATASHA HAMILTON Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.
NATASHA HAMILTON I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me...
NATASHA HAMILTON If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.
NATASHA HAMILTON I love anything quiz related.
NATASHA HAMILTON What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was...
NIGEL HAMILTON I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the s...
NIGEL HAMILTON That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get sl...
NIGEL HAMILTON Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was b...
NIGEL HAMILTON After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just eas...
NIGEL HAMILTON What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - w...
NIGEL HAMILTON In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel...
NIGEL HAMILTON The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collatera...
NIGEL HAMILTON We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a mon...
NIGEL HAMILTON I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneui...
NIGEL HAMILTON At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi...
NIGEL HAMILTON The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn...
NIGEL HAMILTON As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter ...
NIGEL HAMILTON Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi...
NIGEL HAMILTON I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like...
NIGEL HAMILTON I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
SCOTT HAMILTON When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passiv...
HAMILTON JORDAN Some commoners are less common than others.
ALAN HAMILTON In the last week,
ALAN HAMILTON In the opulence of its set, its cast was remarkably adept and it was richly endowed with character a...
ALAN HAMILTON There is, as yet, no Beast and definitely no Bitch.
ALAN HAMILTON Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge.
ALAN HAMILTON We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
HAMILTON JORDAN The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and ...
HAMILTON JORDAN If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is w...
HAMILTON JORDAN I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass...
HAMILTON JORDAN The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it ...
HAMILTON JORDAN My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people...
HAMILTON JORDAN If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an...
HAMILTON JORDAN If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, give...
HAMILTON JORDAN And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these opti...
HAMILTON JORDAN The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination proc...
HAMILTON JORDAN You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he r...
HAMILTON JORDAN We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to ...
HAMILTON JORDAN It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. ...
HAMILTON JORDAN I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a polit...
HAMILTON JORDAN I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
HAMILTON JORDAN I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski t...
TYLER HAMILTON Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h...
GAIL 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 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 Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH 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 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 need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations...
VIJALI 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 To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self...
HAMILTON MABIE Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard befor...
HAMILTON JORDAN Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many o...
ADAM HAMILTON We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in...
ADAM HAMILTON