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Quote DB :: Authors :: Alexander Hamilton :: View Quote View Quote "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Alexander Hamilton Listed in: Economics Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.29  Rate Quote 14 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Alexander Hamilton "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!" "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint." "Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." Top 5 quotes from Economics "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages." "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

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