Alexander-hamilton Quote by Patrick Mendis

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

— Patrick Mendis

“Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.”

— Patrick Mendis

“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

“Alexander Hamilton’s proposal for a First Bank of the United States met resistance from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison because the power to charter…

— Brion T. McClanahan

“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

“In three years of backbreaking studies that, according to Madison , "exacted perhaps the most severe of Jefferson's public labors," Jefferson had almost single-handedly…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“(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

“America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and…

— Jon Meacham

“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 appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.”

— Joseph J. Ellis

“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

“FDR rejected Hamilton's focus on the needs of an economic elite in favor of «jefferson's focus on the needs and interst of the common…

— Cal Jillson