Alexander Hamilton Quotes

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power.

The greatest threat to our freedom is an all powerful federal government.

Our devotion to individual freedom limits our readiness to give central government the power to override our traditional power structure.

Americans invented not simply a new form of government but an entirely new concept of politics.

Those who seek always to limit the power of government are of good heart and conscience. Those who seek to expand the power of government are base tyrants.

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

The Founding Fathers gladly sacrificed government that could provide speedy, effective, cohesive, and internally consistent policies. They opted for one that had a maximum number of veto points and checks and balances and protections against tyranny by particular officials or tyranny by selfish majorities.

The genius of American government consists of the creative tension between conservatives on the one hand and liberals on the other hand..

Republics are not in and of themselves better than other forms of government except in so far as they carry with them and guarantee to the citizen that liberty of thought and action for which they were established.

Americans are naturally suspicious of too much government and they see divided government as a safeguard.

I am sensible that there are defects in our federal government, yet they are so much lighter than those of monarchies, that I view them with much indulgence. I rely, too, on the good sense of the people for remedy, whereas the evils of monarchical government are beyond remedy. If any of our countrymen wish for a King, give them Aesop's fable of the frogs who asked a King; if this does not cure them, send them to Europe. They will go back good republicans.

Institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both.

Every amendment which I am convinced will have the tendency to lesson the danger of civil liberty by the central government will receive my sincere approbation.

How necessary for modern liberty a national representative government is—a representative system comprehending the whole state

Where there is only a national representative government without local self-government, there is no liberty as we understand it