FAMOUS QUOTES FROM ALEXANDER HAMILTON

“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.”

“I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.”

“Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.”

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

“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.”

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”

“Experience will teach us that among the men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.”

“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.”

“He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”

“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.”

“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.”

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.”

“Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.” PRINTABLE MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR WORK

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

“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.”

“Had I attended to the maxim of one of the wisest men of antiquity, I should have fled from public honors rather than have courted them; but conceiving myself dedicated to the service of mankind, and bound by every tie of duty, I have accepted with diffidence those honors which erringly bestowed upon me.”

“Men often oppose a thing, merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.”

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

“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”

“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.”

“No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.”

“It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.”

“The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right.”

“We must make the best of those ills which cannot be prevented.”