Quotations of Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

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“Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.” 
-4/16/1802

"I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever produced...This government has for its object public strength and individual security." -6/18/1786

“All communities divide themselves into the few and the many.  The first are the rich and well born; the other, the mass of people . . . The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right.  Give therefore to the first class a . . .permanent share in the government . . . They therefore will ever maintain good government.” -6/19/1787

"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint." -Federalist Paper No. 15