Evil genius Quote by Ron Chernow

“Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.”

— John Connolly

“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

“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some…

— Jim Butcher

“The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man quick to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest rungs of…

— Ron Chernow

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

— John Quincy Adams

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

— Joseph J. Ellis

“He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into…

— Dan Lopez

“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us…

— Hannah Arendt

“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Shelley

“He generally spoke with much animation and energy, and with considerable gesture. His mind was filled with all the learning and precedence required for…

— Ron Chernow

“He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans…

— C.S. Lewis