Alexander Hamilton Quotes About Ambition

• Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ambition, Tyrants, Principles

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). "Las obras de Alexander Hamilton: Correspondencia [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Cartas de H. G. 1789. Discurso a los acreedores públicos. 1790. Vindicación del sistema de financiación. 1791", p.423

• There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Ambition, Errors

  Alexander Hamilton (1904). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton”

• La ambición sin principios nunca estuvo mucho tiempo bajo la guía del sentido común.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ambición, Largo, Principios

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). "Las obras de Alexander Hamilton: Correspondencia [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Cartas de H. G. 1789. Discurso a los acreedores públicos. 1790. Vindicación del sistema de financiación. 1791", p.423

• The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ambition, Rights, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.3, Hackett Publishing

• Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Ambition, Law

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

• Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Ambition, May

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.208, Harvard University Press

• The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in the State administrations as are capable of preferring their own emolument and advancement to the public weal.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ambition, Character, Federalism

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.290, Cambridge University Press

• Confieso que no logro descubrir qué tentación podrían sentir las personas encargadas de la administración del gobierno general para despojar a los Estados de las autoridades de esa descripción. La regulación de la mera policía doméstica de un Estado me parece que ofrece escasos atractivos a la ambición.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ambition, Loss, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.76

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