by Mike Van Schoiack | Feb 25, 2015 | Alexander Hamilton, Founders, Natural Law, Quotes
“It is the lot of all human institutions, even those of the most perfect kind, to have defects as well as excellencies – ill as well as good propensities. This results from the imperfection of the Institutor, Man.” Alexander Hamilton, Selected...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Alexander Hamilton, Debt, Founders, Quotes, Subject
“Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality — you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beautifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things,...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 24, 2013 | Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Founders, Government, Quotes
“Power being almost always the rival of power, the general government will at all times stand ready to check the usurpations of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government. The people, by throwing themselves...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Founders, Quotes
Writing about our Constitution in Federalist 1, Alexander Hamilton said: “Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption or...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Alexander Hamilton, Founders, Quotes
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
