Alexander Hamilton Quotes on Reason
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
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I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.
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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.