| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 865 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) |
| QUOTATION: | The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ALEXANDER HAMILTON, “The Farmer Refuted,” The Works of Alexander Hamilton, ed. John C. Hamilton, vol. 2, p. 80 (1850). |
| SUBJECTS: | Human rights |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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