Politics Quote by Ron Chernow

“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Hamilton, the most brilliant American statesman who ever lived, possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time, was of course easily the foremost…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious confusion?”

— Victor Hugo

“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

“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted…

— Edmund Burke

“Power may justly be compared to a great river which, while kept within its due bounds is both beautiful and useful; but when it…

— Andrew Hamilton

“Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were,…

— Patrick Henry

“Here you come upon the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be…

— George Orwell

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the generality of…

— Alexander Hamilton