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Quotation from Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank by Alexander Hamilton
“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.”
Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank, Report on Manufactures (1791), sixth advantage (Lodge, Works of Alexander Hamilton (Federal Edition, 1904), vol. 4)
Hamilton argues that manufactures widen the field for enterprise and so call out energies a purely agricultural country would leave idle.
Citation: "To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted." — Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank, Report on Manufactures (1791), sixth advantage (Lodge, Works of Alexander Hamilton (Federal Edition, 1904), vol. 4). (id hamiltons-reports-and-opinion-on-the-bank-q7)
Portrait: Google Arts Project - Alexander Hamilton (1792 portrait) by John Trumbull, John Trumbull, Public domain.
