Alexander Hamilton

"Learn to think continentally."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Self-sufficiency and a contempt of the science and experience of others are too prevailing traits of character in this country."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Bestowing representation on the basis of equal representation rather than population contradicts the fundamental maxim of republican government, which requires that the sense of the majority must prevail."

- Alexander Hamilton

"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."

- Alexander Hamilton

"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."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty."

- Alexander Hamilton

"The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited constitution."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will."

- Alexander Hamilton

"A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly."

- Alexander Hamilton

"The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded."

- Alexander Hamilton

"It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force."

- Alexander Hamilton

"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise about itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."

- Alexander Hamilton