American history Quote by Anonymous

“If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Both Hamilton and Madison were rational men who assumed that people often acted irrationally because of ambition and avarice. Madison wrote, “If men were…

— Ron Chernow

“Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out…

— R.B. Bernstein

“These facts about today’s political climate in the United States, and what they imply, would have horrified Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Adams and all their…

— Richard Dawkins

“Americans could achieve Jefferson’s democratic freedoms through Hamilton’s economic development strategies and trade policies.”

— Patrick Mendis

“In the end, nobody would do more than Alexander Hamilton to infuse life into this parchment and make it the working mandate of the…

— Ron Chernow

“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were…

— James Truslow Adams

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for each other did not come before the…

— David Scott

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

— Richard Brookhiser

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last…

— Harry S. Truman

“I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.”

— Nicole Fende

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

— Caleb Cushing