The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
Alexander HamiltonThe laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war . . . thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.
Alexander HamiltonDivide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
Alexander Hamilton