Alexander Hamilton Quotes

Alexander Hamilton Quotes

Alexander Hamilton Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Alexander Hamilton:

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one."

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

"When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same."

"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint."

"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one"

"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. "

What are your thoughts about the quotes from Alexander Hamilton?