Alexander Hamilton Quotes About Liberty

• Lo mejor que podemos esperar del pueblo en general es que esté bien armado.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Armas, Derechos, Personas

  "Los Papeles Federalistas". Libro de Alexander Hamilton, ensayo nº 69, 1787 - 1788.

• Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Running, Powerful, War

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.38, Coventry House Publishing

• Hay un cierto entusiasmo en la libertad, que hace que la naturaleza humana se eleve por encima de sí misma, en actos de valentía y heroísmo.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Héroe, Patriótico, Valentía

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). "Ciudadano Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder", p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

• The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!

  Alexander Hamilton

  Gobierno, Derecho, Libertad

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). "Las obras de Alexander Hamilton: Comprendiendo su Correspondencia y sus Escritos Políticos y Oficiales, Excluyendo los Federalistas, Civiles y Militares. Published from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State, by Order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress", p. 164.

• [If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Race, People

• Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Careers, Tyrants

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.10, Coventry House Publishing

• [H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Freedom, Sacrifice

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton; compris. his corresp. and his polit. and official writings, excl. of the federalist, civil and military. Ed. by John C. Hamilton”, p.427

• Ahora estamos formando un gobierno republicano. La verdadera libertad nunca se encuentra en el despotismo ni en los extremos de la democracia, sino en los gobiernos moderados.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Libertad, Real, Gobierno

  Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton (1932). "Principios jeffersonianos y principios hamiltonianos: extractos de los escritos de Thomas Jefferson y Alexander Hamilton".

• De poco le servirá al pueblo que las leyes sean hechas por hombres de su propia elección, si las leyes son tan voluminosas que no pueden ser leídas, o tan incoherentes que no pueden ser comprendidas; si son derogadas o revisadas antes de ser promulgadas, o sufren cambios tan incesantes que ningún hombre, que sepa lo que la ley es hoy, puede adivinar lo que será mañana.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Hombres, Ley, Personas

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.79, Rowman & Littlefield

• ...ese ejército permanente nunca puede ser formidable (amenazador) para las libertades del pueblo, mientras haya un gran cuerpo de ciudadanos, poco o nada inferiores a ellos en el uso de las armas.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Army, Gun, Law

• Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can scarcely lose its liberty from any other cause than that of anarchy, to which a contempt of the laws is the high-road.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Long, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). "Las obras de Alexander Hamilton: Comprendiendo su Correspondencia y sus Escritos Políticos y Oficiales, Excluyendo los Federalistas, Civiles y Militares. Published from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State, by Order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress", p. 164.

• I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Liberty, Foundation

  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.34

• Los gobiernos estatales poseen ventajas inherentes que siempre les darán influencia y ascendencia sobre el Gobierno Nacional, e impedirán para siempre la posibilidad de usurpaciones federales. Que sus libertades, de hecho, puedan ser subvertidas por el jefe federal, repugna a toda regla de cálculo político.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Gobierno, Donación, Política

  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.436

• A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Struggle, Justice, Humanity

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.88, Rowman & Littlefield

• It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Gobierno, Política, Libertad

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.151, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• 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

• El verdadero principio de una república es que el pueblo elija a quien le plazca para gobernarlo. La representación es imperfecta en la medida en que la corriente del favor popular es frenada. La gran fuente del gobierno libre, la elección popular, debe ser perfectamente pura, y debe permitirse la libertad más ilimitada.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Gobierno, Pueblo, Libertad

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). "The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Publicado a partir de los manuscritos originales depositados en el Departamento de Estado, por orden del Comité Conjunto de Bibliotecas del Congreso", p.444

• La [V]igor del gobierno es esencial para la seguridad de la libertad.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Liberty, Essentials

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Barton Dawson (1864). “The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes”, p.4, New York : C. Scribner ; London : Sampson Low

• La libertad civil no es más que la libertad natural, modificada y asegurada por las sanciones de la sociedad civil. No es una cosa, en su propia naturaleza, precaria y dependiente de la voluntad y el capricho humanos; sino que es conforme a la constitución del hombre, así como necesaria para el bienestar de la sociedad.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Hombres, Libertad, Constitución

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). "Las obras de Alexander Hamilton: Misceláneas, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc", p.61

• Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command or exact obedience from him, except that which arose from the ties of consanguinity.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Ties, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers ...”, p.76

• Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Law, Two

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). "Las obras de Alexander Hamilton: Comprendiendo su Correspondencia y sus Escritos Políticos y Oficiales, Excluyendo los Federalistas, Civiles y Militares. Published from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State, by Order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress", p. 164.

• Recuerden que la libertad civil y la religiosa siempre van juntas: si se socavan los cimientos de una, la otra caerá por supuesto.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Religión, Otoño, Libertad

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). "The Official and Other Papers ...", p.48

• 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

• Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Liberty, Natural, Sanctions

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). "Las obras de Alexander Hamilton: Misceláneas, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc", p.61

• Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Running, Powerful, Safety

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.34

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