The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
Alexander HamiltonThe multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.
Alexander HamiltonAs riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
Alexander Hamilton[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
Alexander HamiltonAs you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of the doctrine you both agree in: and this makes it impossible to imagine whence this congruity between you arises. "To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable.
Alexander HamiltonThe principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.
Alexander Hamilton