economist
Padre Fundador estadounidense y estadista (1755/1757–1804)
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“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.”
“It is a maxim deeply ingrafted in that dark system, that no character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.”
“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.”
“A council to a magistrate, who is himself responsible for what he does, are generally nothing better than a clog upon his good intentions, are often the instruments and accomplices of his bad and are almost always a cloak to his faults.”
“For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.”
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Alexander Hamilton fue un oficial militar estadounidense, estadista y Padre Fundador que sirvió como el primer secretario del tesoro de los EE. UU. de 1789 a 1795 bajo la presidencia de George Washington. También fundó el primer partido político de Estados Unidos, el Partido Federalista, en 1791.
