Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.
Alexander HamiltonWar, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
Alexander HamiltonThe 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.
Alexander HamiltonThe local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one or the other is necessary, the former becomes only an apparent, partial interest, and should yield, on the principle that the smaller good ought never to oppose the greater good.
Alexander Hamilton