What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle… of a free government.

Today is Alexander Hamilton’s birthday. He was born on Jan 11 in 1755 or 1757. Happy Birthday 🎉🎈🎊🎂🎁

In the general course of human nature, a power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

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 or obscured by mortal power.

Our great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

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In the general course of human nature, a power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

Alexander and Eliza Hamilton were married on December 14, 1780. That’s 244 years ago today!