Michael W. Simmons > Quotes

“The spirit that breathes throughout is so rancorous, illiberal and imperious: The argumentative part of it so puerile and fallacious: The misrepresentations of facts so palpable and flagrant: The criticisms so illiterate, trifling and absurd: The conceits so low, sterile and splenetic, that I will venture to pronounce it one of the most ludicrous performances, which has been exhibited to public view, during all the present controversy.”
― Michael W. Simmons, Alexander Hamilton: First Architect Of The American Government

“It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the "merely-personal," from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings. Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation, and I soon noticed that many a man whom I had learned to esteem and to admire had found inner freedom and security in devoted occupation with it.” Albert Einstein, “Autobiographical Notes”
― Michael W. Simmons, Albert Einstein: Father Of The Modern Scientific Age

“Republican-controlled bank in the city. Plenty of Republicans were inherently suspicious of banks, but many would welcome the opportunity to use one that didn’t require them to get into bed with their political enemies.   Hamilton was infuriated when he realized how Burr had used him. Once the company had received its charter, it abandoned all pretense of providing the city with clean water, instead laying in a pipe system that transported the contaminated well water around the city. This incident perhaps marked the turning point in Hamilton’s relationship with Burr; friendly despite their political differences, the most famous duel in American history lay in their future, and only one of them would survive it.     The”
― Michael W. Simmons, Alexander Hamilton: First Architect Of The American Government

“Hamilton was, in many ways, the original embodiment of the American dream, the nation’s first truly self-made man, an immigrant who came to the new world as a teenager to better his condition in life and join the struggle for independence.”
― Michael W. Simmons, Alexander Hamilton: First Architect Of The American Government