Alexander Hamilton

"The art of war is to improve our forces and employ our strength."

"Without continuity, progress is merely motion without direction."

"The establishment of a post office and post roads is a natural instrument of the government."

"Coercion is the basis of law; consent the basis of government."

"I have learned that patience is a virtue that grows only with practice."

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands is the definition of tyranny."

"Trifles make up the happiness of human life."

"To presume to judge of the future is to presume to give the lie to all the revelations of the past."

"The eye of the author should not be fixed on the object of composing a work, but of improving the human mind."

"Banks promote the public good by facilitating commerce and agriculture."

"The death of a great man is not merely a loss to his country, but to the world."

"Those who are true to the object of their being will find their rewards."

"The danger of the American republic lies not in foreign threats, but in our own complacency."

"The Constitution should never be construed to authorize what common sense forbids."

"Democracy may elevate those of true merit, but it also gives a voice to the base."

"Every institution where a man acts is a school of manners."

"The imagination is the great instrument of poetical invention; it works by ideas."

"To admit that you are conquered is to be conquered; to resist is to conquer yourself."

"The science of government is my passion; I would rather excel in this than in any other science."

"The mind of man is like the ocean; vast, deep, and largely unexplored."

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes; yet too often the world is wrong."

"The duration of true friendship is indefinite; it expires only with life itself."

"The hand that follows intellect can achieve what the hand alone can never accomplish."

"In politics there are often short-lived honors; in virtue there are eternal ones."

"The greatest danger to the American republic is the ignorance of her citizens."

"Providence has been pleased to guide us safely to this point in our journey."

"The public credit is a matter of national concern and is essential to national power."

"A vigorous spirit alone will not accomplish great deeds; it must be united with discipline."

"Man aspires to greatness, yet gravitates toward mediocrity unless vigilantly resisting the pull."

"The Constitution is the framework upon which we build, and build we must."