Alexander Hamilton

Scottish sea captain

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Letter from Alexander Hamilton
Patrick Henry's address
Propositions of Colonel Hamilton, of New-York, in the Convention for establishing a constitutional government for the United States
The papers of Alexander Hamilton

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Discography

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“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”
“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 good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.”
“Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.”
“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”
“Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.”
“Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite...to the attainment of the ends of such power.”