The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable that this unbridled spirit would pay much respect to those regulations of trade by which particular States might endeavor to secure exclusive benefits to their own citizens.
Alexander HamiltonNothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
Alexander HamiltonThe system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
Alexander HamiltonThe genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.
Alexander Hamilton