Alexander Hamilton Opinion Quotations

I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But there remains to be mentioned a positive advantage . . . I allude to the circumstance of uniformity in the time of elections for the House of Representatives. It is more than possible, that this uniformity may be found by experience to be of great importance to the public welfare; both as a security against the perpetuation of the same spirit in the body; and as a cure for the diseases of faction.

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

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.