Author: Alexander Hamilton

“If the Constitution is adopted the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States of a Confederacy.”

“Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.”

“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.”

“Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.”

“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

“Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.”

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”

“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.”