Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
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Francesco Guicciardini
Learn to think continentally.
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Alexander Hamilton
Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none.
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Thomas Jefferson
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it.
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George Washington
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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Wendell Phillips
More Quotes By Alexander Hamilton
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by...
An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth. No. 75
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice,...
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things
