Alexander Hamilton

I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one has to estimate relative justices. But the use of violence and the creation of some degree of injustice can only be justified on the basis of the claim and the assessment-which always ought to be undertaken very, very seriously and with a good deal of scepticism that this violence is being exercised because a more just result is going to be achieved.

If people don’t like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

…I try to keep in mind the principle that one should not try to persuade; rather, to lay out the territory as best one can so that others can use their own intellectual powers to determine for themselves what they think is taking place and what is right or wrong.

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term ‘conservatism’ can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country’s future.

You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.

There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea. Absolutely.

This is a method by which to restrain Russia, the notorious sanctions, because endless accusations lay the groundwork for introducing restraining measures.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

I’ve never had the passion for politics.