Alexander Hamilton Republic Quotations

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

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.