Anything Quote by Ron Chernow

My first fight in Hamilton was against Rocky Thompson. Everybody was saying, 'Be careful, he can punch with both hands.' I'm saying, 'Look how…

— Georges Laraque

“His subordinates remembered him as tough but fair-minded. Years later, one of them retained Hamilton as a lawyer, even though he had become a…

— Ron Chernow

“He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted…

— Ken Follett

“He was a man who regarded his opinions, however briefly adopted, as revealed truth: he never backed down, or listened, or compromised. He was…

— Ben Macintyre

“He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.”

— G.K. Chesterton

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

— Piers Anthony

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

— Joseph Heller

“He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous…

— Teju Cole

“Finally, he [John F. Mercer] ridiculed Hamilton as an upstart, "a mushroom excrescence," who did not deserve the prominence he had gained.”

— Ron Chernow

“Hamilton has often been extolled as the exponent of a rational foreign policy based on cool calculations of national self-interest. But his April 14…

— Ron Chernow

“I imagine it is because you can lead him to a story for his newspaper, and if it is for his paper, it must…

— David Liss

“He fought because it was considered the 'thing to do,' because he liked the people he had to live with, and because those people…

— Walter M. Miller Jr