No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than …

Alexander Hamilton
316 citations
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc, p.3
Politics
24

More Author Quotes

Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tr … ▶
Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them greater than they could possibly b … ▶
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). The Federalist, on the new constit … ▶
When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculti … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes