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“From that point on, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and a few other intimates made it their first priority to arrange a deal with Hamilton—letting him…

— Anonymous

“(Jefferson) was deeply suspicious of Hamilton's assumption plan (by which the nation would assume responsibility for the states' individual war debts.) He feared this…

— Jay Winik

“At this, Hamilton dropped any pose of civility and chastised Monroe, saying “your representation is totally false.”

— Ron Chernow

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency,…

— Ron Chernow

“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

“Hamilton drew freely on statements he had made at the Constitutional Convention to distinguish his “elective monarch” from a king. The British king, he…

— Ron Chernow

“The American Revolution and its aftermath coincided with two great transformations in the late eighteenth century. In the political sphere, there had been a…

— Ron Chernow

Hamilton is my favorite political entrepreneur.

— Travis Kalanick

What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army of fifty…

— John Adams

“Whatever his disappointments, Hamilton, forty, must have left Philadelphia with an immense feeling of accomplishment. The Whiskey Rebellion had been suppressed, the country's finances…

— Ron Chernow

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die.…

— James Truslow Adams