Alexander Hamilton Quotes About 2 Amendment

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  • The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

    "The Federalist Papers". Book by Alexander Hamilton, essay No. 69, 1787 - 1788.
  • ...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

  • Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.156, Hackett Publishing
  • If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.

    Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (2018). “America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights”, p.199, First Avenue Editions
  • This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

    John Church Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton (1860). “History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and of His Contemporaries”, p.140
  • What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious if it were capable of being carried into execution... Little more can reasonably be aimed at with the respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped ; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

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Alexander Hamilton

  • Born: January 11, 1757
  • Died: July 12, 1804
  • Occupation: Founding Father of the United States