Alexander Hamilton Quotes

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.

The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written constitution

The word "security" is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security four our Republic.

The Constitution is not about restricting the people; it is about restricting the government.

We must be intransigent when it comes to respecting our Constitution and our laws.

The primary job of the Supreme Court justice is not to uphold the will of the majority of the moment. The primary job of the Supreme Court is not to reflect the popular opinions of the day.... The Constitution is a decidedly anti-majoritarian document in wonderful and important ways that intentionally protect our rights and our liberties. And the role of the Supreme Court—in protecting those rights and liberties—is sometimes precisely to frustrate the will of a majority.

I know the rule. I know law. I know economics. I know parliament. That's an explosive combination.

The Republic will destroy terrorism.

The Republic will not be destroyed by terrorism.

We are a nation of laws.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by the government, and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country. Wherever the supreme power of legislation has resided, has been supposed to reside also, a full power to change the form of government.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.

The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court.

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.