The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
Alexander HamiltonYou should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Alexander HamiltonA well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
Alexander HamiltonIt may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose as well as to the other. But this objection will have little weight with those who can properly estimate the mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our governments.
Alexander HamiltonThis balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them.
Alexander Hamilton