Alexander Hamilton Quotes About War

• It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Authority, Increase

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.33, Courier Corporation

• La seguridad frente al peligro externo es el director más poderoso de la conducta nacional. Incluso el ardiente amor a la libertad, después de un tiempo, cederá a sus dictados. La violenta destrucción de vidas y bienes que implica la guerra, el continuo esfuerzo y la alarma que acompañan a un estado de peligro permanente, obligarán a las naciones más apegadas a la libertad a recurrir, en busca de reposo y seguridad, a instituciones que tienden a destruir sus derechos civiles y políticos. Para estar más seguras, acaban por estar dispuestas a correr el riesgo de ser menos libres.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Correr, Poderoso, Guerra

  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

• A juzgar por la historia de la humanidad, nos veremos obligados a concluir, que las pasiones ardientes y destructivas de la guerra, reinan en el pecho humano, con mucho más poderoso dominio, que los sentimientos suaves y benéficos de la paz.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Paz, Poder, Guerra

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.159, Coventry House Publishing

• En esta distribución de poderes se manifiesta la sabiduría de nuestra constitución. Es competencia y deber del Ejecutivo preservar para la Nación las bendiciones de la paz. La Legislatura es la única que puede interrumpir esas bendiciones, poniendo a la Nación en estado de Guerra.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Guerra, bendición, distribución del poder

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.410

• Los jurados deben absolver, incluso en contra de la instrucción del juez. . . si ejerciendo su juicio con discreción y honestidad tienen la clara convicción de que la acusación del tribunal es errónea.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Honestidad, Guerra, Ejercicio

• Si se aprueba la Constitución (y así fue), la Unión será de hecho y en teoría una asociación de Estados o una Confederación.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Guerra, sindicatos, asociación

• Las leyes de ciertos Estados . . dan una propiedad en el servicio de los negros como propiedad personal . Pero siendo hombres, por las leyes de Dios y de la naturaleza, eran capaces de adquirir la libertad - y cuando el captor en la guerra . . consideró oportuno otorgarles la libertad, la donación no sólo era válida, sino irrevocable.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Guerra, Hombres, Ley

  "Papers of Alexander Hamilton". Book by Alexander Hamilton, November 22, 1961.

• The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of those rights; and by degrees, the people are brought to consider the soldiery not only as their protectors but as their superiors.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Rights, People

  Alexander Hamilton (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution ... by A. Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. With an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus (A. Hamilton) and Helvidius (J. Madison), on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793; the Original Articles of Confederation ... Sixth Edition, Etc”, p.27

• La historia de la conducta humana no justifica esa exaltada opinión de la virtud humana que haría prudente en una nación confiar intereses de un tipo tan delicado y trascendental como los que conciernen a sus relaciones con el resto del mundo, a la sola disposición de un magistrado, creado y circunstanciado, como sería un presidente de los Estados Unidos.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wise, War, President

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.373

• 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 President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the land and naval forces, as first general and admiral ... while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies - all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Reyes, Guerra, Ejército

  Alexander Hamilton (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution ... by A. Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. With an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus (A. Hamilton) and Helvidius (J. Madison), on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793; the Original Articles of Confederation ... Sixth Edition, Etc”, p.278

• [La guerra es una cuestión, según nuestra constitución, no del Ejecutivo, sino del Legislativo. Corresponde al Congreso decidir si la nación debe rechazar la rama de olivo y desplegar los estandartes de la guerra.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Choices, Olive Branches

  Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett, Jacob Ernest Cooke (1969). “Papers: Harold C. Syrett, Editor; Jacob E. Cooke, Associate Editor”

• There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other.... The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Men, Mutual Interest

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793".

• War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Practice, Perserverance

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.119, Courier Corporation

• Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Exercise, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.565, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Guerra, Pérdida, Hombres

• La alabanza de un mundo civilizado se debe justamente al cristianismo; la guerra, por la influencia de los principios humanos de esa religión, ha sido despojada de la mitad de sus horrores. Los franceses renuncian al cristianismo y recaen en la barbarie; la guerra vuelve a adoptar la misma forma horrible y salvaje que tenía en las épocas de la violencia gótica y romana.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Age, Violence

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

• Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

  Alexander Hamilton

  Guerra, Media, Hombres

  Alexander Hamilton, Morton J. Frisch (1985). “Selected writings and speeches of Alexander Hamilton”, Aei Pr

• The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Simple, Doctors

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.133, Coventry House Publishing

• [En caso de guerra, los estadounidenses] recurrirían en busca de reposo y seguridad a instituciones que tienden a destruir sus derechos civiles y políticos. Para estar más seguros, están dispuestos a correr el riesgo de ser menos libres.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Running, War, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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