Alexander Hamilton
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
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…