Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
Interpretation
Experience is the most reliable teacher in forming our opinions.
In this quote, Alexander Hamilton emphasizes the importance of experience as a crucial guide for understanding and forming opinions. He suggests that rather than relying solely on theories or conjectures, one should look to real-life experiences and lessons learned to obtain answers to important questions.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one could say, 'As Alexander Hamilton once stated, let experience be our guide as we navigate life's challenges.'
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its rights and interests: and the latter facilitates and extends the operations of commerce among individuals. Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.
You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.
I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real
There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you canβt be good, be careful.
The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.
Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.
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