M.K. Alexander Quotes

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford so good security.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association.

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.

- But we can't help falling in love. - We can't help defecating either. But we can choose where and when we are going to do it.

There is so much more content in English that a lot of people have a hard time filtering through the noise.

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.