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.
I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.
The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. We can look at the world with fresh eyes and hear things with fresh ears.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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