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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Alexander Hamilton

Work

Man

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Alexander Hamilton

People

Act

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

Debt

Will

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Alexander Hamilton

Change

Reason

A promise must never be broken.

Alexander Hamilton

Promise

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Alexander Hamilton

Government

Neutrality

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.