20 Best Alexander Hamilton Quotes That Still Hold Significance: Alexander Hamilton was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was born on January 11, 1755, or 1757 in Charles Town, Nevis, British Leeward Islands to Rachel Faucet Buck and James A. Hamilton.

He was the promoter of the United States Constitution. He is the founder of the nation’s financial system such as Federalist Party, the United States Coast Guard, and the New York Post newspaper.

When he reached his teens, he was sent to New York to follow his education. He became a senior aide to General Washington in running the new Continental Army in 1777. Alexander returned to the practice of law in New York, called for recruitment against the French First Republic in 1798–99 under President John Adams in 1795. He died on July 12, 1804, in New York City, New York.

 

Here Are 20 Best Alexander Hamilton Quotes That Still Hold Significance

 

“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 constitution shall never be construed…to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” ― Alexander Hamilton

 

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

 

“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.” ― Alexander Hamilton

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

 

“The art of reading is to skip judiciously.” ― Alexander Hamilton

 

“I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.” ― Alexander Hamilton

 

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

 

“There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. ” ― Alexander Hamilton

 

“Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.” ― 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 Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” ― Alexander Hamilton

 

“It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, 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

 

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

 

“Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.” ― Alexander Hamilton

 

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“When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests to withstand the temporary delusion in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection. Instances might be cited in which a conduct of this kind has saved the people from very fatal consequences of their own mistakes, and has procured lasting monuments of their gratitude to the men who had courage and magnanimity enough to serve them at the peril of their displeasure.” ― Alexander Hamilton,

 

“I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.” ― Alexander Hamilton

 

“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those 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.― Alexander Hamilton,

 

“Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.” ― Alexander Hamilton

 

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“Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.” ― Alexander Hamilton,

 

“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood;” ― Alexander Hamilton,

 

“To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.” ― Alexander Hamilton

 

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