Alexander Hamilton Quotations Often Prove Prophetic. Important Warnings About the Danger of Centralized Government Power Can Help Protect Freedom.

Alexander Hamilton was a vocal man, particularly in regard to his perceived need for a strong central government. First among these Alexander Hamilton quotations is this, 'Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.'

This may be the first assumption of modern liberalism. Hamilton did not believe, aptly or not, that people were able to exist without a voracious centralized seat of power to constrain their avarice.

This well meaning, though flawed, concept has led directly and indirectly to many of the issues we are facing in today's economic downturn.

The existence of the leviathan we know as the federal government; in addition to the Federal Reserve, are all concepts that were bought and sold by Hamilton's need to constrain and therefore limit the rights of man.

Another interesting Alexander Hamilton quotation is, 'A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.'

On the surface, this sounds succinct.

There is, however, a less than subtle plea in this quote for a strong executive. It is surprising that in the era that the framers were living in, Hamilton would fall for such a fallacy of theory. Hamilton and his countrymen had just removed themselves from the tyranny of an oppressive executive.

Statements such as this set the foundation for Hamilton's insistence on a strong federal government to 'serve' the people; that was until that government came to be the source of power in and of itself.

JOHN ADAMS ON HAMILTON

HAMILTON'S PROPHECY?

This Alexander Hamilton quotation reads like a primer for the modern day liberal.

'A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.'

President Obama's solution to the current economic downturn can be attributed directly to a belief in this remark. While rallying the masses to pass his recent stimulus package, Mr. Obama said, '...we have to accommodate the interests of a range of people.'

Based on Mr. Hamilton's argument, is this not the very impetus of his argument? The thought government should hold all power required to provide for 'a regard to the common good' has been used to condemn homes and build Walmarts, and led to the debate of public need versus public accommodation.

DISGRACE OR DANGER

This final Alexander Hamilton quotation is the gold standard of what this nation is being reduced to. 'A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.'

For all the average citizen can disagree with Hamilton about, truer words have never been spoken nor have come to fruition the way this statement has. In the Twenty First century, this nation has relied so heavily and so insidiously on a strong central government to provide for it for so long, that we need a master.

The general public, or 63 million of them, agreed with this need by electing Barrack Hussein Obama to the highest office in the land. The centralization of power that Alexander Hamilton so desperately sought during the birth of our nation will continue unabated, and the public will always prefer disgrace to danger.