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.
Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.
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