Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
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More quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
- Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
- Learn to think continentally.
- The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
- Real firmness is good for anything strut is good for nothing.