Alexander Hamilton

"The mob begins to think and reason, Poor reptiles! How they mistake themselves!"

"Commerce has a natural tendency to soften the manners of men."

"Let me rapidly review the course of my life."

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of power."

"The people of this country are never to be trusted with the keys to their own jail."

"To me it seems probable that this is the true meaning and intent of the Constitution."

"The United States, if they mean to establish a national character must protect the mechanic arts."

"Inequality is the source of all corruption."

"The general fabrication of falsehoods finds no asylum in this country."

"No government could long subsist if the tendency of the laws was to create a disposition to embezzle the public money."

"The remarkable prosperity of the American Union is in no small degree attributable to a just and enlightened system."

"There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld if not demanded."

"When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices."

"We must make a choice between submission and resistance."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind."

"A person disposed to oblige is ever sure to oblige himself."

"Learn to think continentally."

"Despotism can only exist in darkness."

"The use of the word federalist is a new one."

"Let facts be submitted to a candid world."

"The Constitution is the thing that has survived."

"A man of virtue and honor will be cautious of his words."

"The worth of a society is determined by how it treats its weakest members."

"Freedom is the greatest blessing; slavery the greatest curse."

"There must be something wrong with a government that neglects the advancement of science."

"Great souls care little for small offenses."

"The industrious habits of this class of people will prove their best recommendation."

"A vigorous spirit of inquiry should animate the advancement of knowledge."

"The moment a scheme is devised, it should be pushed forward with all possible energy."

"National prosperity is the true and lasting foundation of personal happiness."