Geburtsdatum | Samstag, 11. Januar 1755 |
Geburtsort | British_Leeward_Islands |
Todesort | Manhattan |
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Beschreibung | Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first United States secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795. Scholars generally regard Hamilton as an astute and intellectually brilliant administrator, politician, and financier, if often impetuous. His ideas are credited with laying the foundation for American government and finance. |
Learn to think continentally.
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.
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.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Real firmness is good for anything strut is good for nothing.
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.
It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
