{"author":"Alexander Hamilton","author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton","total_quotes":41,"quotes":[{"text":"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["tyranny","desire","just "],"id":661,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["honor","immigrant","national-debt"],"id":1108,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"Man is a reasoning  rather than a reasonable  animal.","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["decisions"],"id":5167,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["bravery","heroism","liberty "],"id":24194,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["constitution"],"id":31479,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"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 or obscured by mortal power.","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["power","human nature","rights "],"id":51605,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["constitution","government","law","liberty"],"id":59244,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"Learn to think continentally.","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["learn","think "],"id":86956,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"Learn to think continentally.","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["statesmanship"],"id":118636,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the generality of them. Yet it would not be difficult to lay the finger upon some of their party who may justly be suspected. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government \u0026 bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["anarchy","fearmongering","hamilton","monarchy","trump","unprincipled","zealot"],"id":121843,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}