4 Alexander Hamilton Quotes on Reason

Alexander Hamilton quotes on reason

10. Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

25. Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

45. 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.

64. 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.