Alexander Hamilton Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The honor of a nation is its life.”

“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 or obscured by mortal power.”

“The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.”

“To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.”

“Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.”

“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.”

“In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.”