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Alexander Hamilton Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
— Alexander Hamilton, via Wikiquote
Tagged: Principles, Values
“A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight.”
— Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton
Tagged: strategy
“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.”
— Alexander Hamilton, Founders Online: Enclosure:[Objections and Answers Respecting the Administrati …
Tagged: United States Politics, Founding Fathers, racism, Trump Administration
“When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”
— Alexander Hamilton, Founders Online: Enclosure:[Objections and Answers Respecting the Administrati …
Tagged: United States Politics, Founding Fathers, Trump Administration, President Trump, Chaos
“Moderation enough has been shown; 'tis time to assume a different tone.”
— Alexander Hamilton, Washington: A Life
Tagged: strategy
“The best way is ever not to attempt to stem a torrent but to divert it.”
— Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton
Tagged: strategy
“If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.”
— Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton
Tagged: strategy
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”
— Alexander Hamilton
Tagged: Human Nature, Independence, Bravery, Hero
“I cannot make everybody else as rapid as myself. This you know by experience.”
— Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
Tagged: Life
“He had rather be in his grave than in his present situation, that he had rather be on his farm than made emperor of the world, and yet they were charging him with wanting to be king.”
— Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
Tagged: Life
“My plan as ever is to combine energy with moderation.”
— Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
Tagged: Life
“It will be far more difficult to undo than do.”
— Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton
Tagged: strategy
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