Alexander Hamilton Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• 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

• The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Commitment, Small Numbers

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.319, Cambridge University Press

• The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Honor, Liberty, Foundation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.81, Rowman & Littlefield

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