A. Hamilton

Cited as A. Hamilton. — 25 quotations

Basis

The basis of public credit is good faith.

Contemplate

There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.

Description

A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors.

Desert

His reputation falls far below his desert.

Displacement

Unnecessary displacement of funds.

Dissatisfactory

To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention.

Distress

Men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty.

Draft

I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan.

Expenditure

The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country.

Favoritism

A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States.

Fidelity

The best security for the fidelity of men is to make interest coincide with duty.

Fiscal

The fiscal arrangements of government.

Flow

The imperial purple flowing in his train.

Grow

These wars have grown out of commercial considerations.

Investment

Before the investment could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible.

Liquidate

Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.

Operate

The same cause would operate a diminution of the value of stock.

ostracism

Sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the . . . confidence, and honors, and emoluments of his country.

Outstanding

Revenues . . . as well outstanding as collected.

Patrol

In France there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations.

Patronize

The idea has been patronized by two States only.

Redress

Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared.

Reimbursable

A loan has been made of two millions of dollars, reimbursable in ten years.

Retrospect

It may be useful to retrospect to an early period.

Simplify

The collection of duties is drawn to a point, and so far simplified.