You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.- Alexander Hamilton
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Learn to think continentally.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
