Alexander Hamilton Quotes About Foreign Policy
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Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
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States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.
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The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.
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The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.
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Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
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Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
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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.
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The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
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That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.
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A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.
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The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
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There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a treaty regulating all the details of time, place, circumstance, and quantity; leaving nothing to future discretion; and depending for its execution on the good faith of the parties.
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They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.
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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!
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By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.
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War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
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Alexander Hamilton
- Born: January 11, 1757
- Died: July 12, 1804
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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