Alexander HamiltonThinkers

The 2nd Amendment is not a tool of the individual, but of the separate states, which coordinate (rather than control) individuals as a check on the federal government.

Ambition is when unchecked by principle or the love of glory, an unruly tyrant.

America is a country to which one might possess an ill forebodings as to its future system.

Consumption tax has the advantage that it contain in its own nature a security against excess, in that if too high, consumption goes down and lessens revenue, thus defeating the original purpose of the tax.

The Electoral college is wise in that, while recognizing the sense of the people, men most capable of analyzing requisite qualities and avoid the election of anyone 'not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.

The Emoluments clause of the US Constitution is, on account of the vulnerability of the republican form of government to foreign corruption, worded so as to be a catch-all for any attempts by foreign governments to influence state or municipal policies through gifts or titles.

Fame is the highest ambition of the noblest minds.

Human nature is the necessary relations between self-interest and republican government.

Impeachment 1s 2rosecution will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.