[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
Alexander HamiltonI propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.
Alexander HamiltonLet Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!
Alexander Hamilton