The quotations of

Alexander Hamilton

American Founding Father and statesman

1757–1804

17 quotes, most often on Government, Laws and Economics. Part of the Founding Fathers collection.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
The Federalist Papers (1787–1788), No. 15
- Government
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Remarks at the New York ratifying convention (1788), in Elliot’s Debates, vol. 2, p. 348
- Democracy
- Government
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
The Federalist Papers (1787–1788), No. 15
- Government
- Laws
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.
Speech in New York, urging ratification of the U.S. Constitution (21 June 1788)
- Democracy
- Government
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them.
Federalist No. 78 (May 28, 1788)In context
- Government
- Justice

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