亚历山大·汉密尔顿
亚历山大·汉密尔顿（英语：Alexander Hamilton，1757年1月11日—1804年7月12日），是美国宪法的起草者之一，美国金融体系的创始人，联邦党的创立者，美国海岸警卫队之父和《纽约邮报》的创始人。
语录
[编辑]- 大不列颠的宪法被恰当地称为有限君主制，民众保留了自己在立法机关中的席位，作为对君主权威的制衡，以防止其沦为专制和暴政。
- 原文：The constitution of Great Britain is very properly called a limited monarchy, the people having reserved to themselves a share in the legislature, as a check upon the regal authority, to prevent its degenerating into despotism and tyranny.
- 若我们以通常的方式解决，我将下定决心，希望上帝给我机会，保留并使我的第一次开火偏离，而我甚至还想留下第二发子弹。
- 原文：I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.
- 在一部有限的宪法中，司法的完全独立是至关重要的。
- 原文：The complete independence of the Courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution.
论政府
[编辑]- 公正建立的所有公民政府的起源必须是治理者与同意政治治理者间的自愿契约；并且必须受到限制，以保障后者的绝对权利；
- 原文：The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter;
- 在人性的一般过程中，掌控一个人生存的力量等于掌控其意志的力量。（在别处，汉密尔顿也提及了使总统拥有独立而适当的财政权力的必要）
- 原文：In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
- 我们必须充分利用那些无法避免的弊端。
- 原文：We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
关于汉密尔顿的名言
[编辑]- 当美国不再记住他的伟大时，美国将不再伟大。--柯立芝（Calvin Coolidge）
- 原文：When America ceases to remember his greatness, America will no longer be great.
- 汉密尔顿根据了大不列颠宪法的优点，亚当斯先生认为，如果纠正其中的某些缺陷和弊端，那将是有史以来最完美的政府宪法。
- 原文：And Colonel Hamilton, on the merits of the British Constitution, Mr. Adams giving it as his opinion, that, if some of its defects and abuses were corrected, it would be the most perfect constitution of government ever devised.
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