Alexander Hamilton Quotes About Foreign Policy

Quotes about: Foreign Policy

• Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Horse, Republic, Influence

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.427

• States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fate, Opposites, Engagement

  United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States”, p.4

• The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Suicide, Political, Honor

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents. Index”, p.627

• Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

  Alexander Hamilton

  Greatness, Together, Connections

  The Federalist no. 11 (1788)

• The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Names, Allies

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.83

• The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Political, Unions

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.111, Coventry House Publishing

• That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, May, Force

  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

• They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Agreement, Sovereign, Foreign Policy

  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.438

• The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Weakness, Neutrality

  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.50

• A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Thinking, Fit, Foreign Policy

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Cabinet papers. 1789-1794”, p.366

• Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Foreign Policy, Policy, Ought

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Cabinet papers. 1789-1794”, p.366

• There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a treaty regulating all the details of time, place, circumstance, and quantity; leaving nothing to future discretion; and depending for its execution on the good faith of the parties.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Party, Independent, Ideas

  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.68

• 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

• By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Europe, America, Competition

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.166, Rowman & Littlefield

• The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Land, United States

  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.102

• Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Force, Contracts

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.570, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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