Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamiltonwas a Founding Father of the United States, chief staff aide to General George Washington, one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the U.S. Constitution, the founder of the nation's financial system, the founder of the Federalist Party, the world's first voter-based political party, the founder of the United States Coast Guard, and the founder of The New York Post newspaper. As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was the primary author of the economic policies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 January 1757
CountryUnited States of America
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.
The first duty of society is justice.
The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
A promise must never be broken.
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.