Aaron Burr Quotes

“Life doesn't discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes
And we keep living anyway
We rise and we fall and we break
And we make our mistakes”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I am the one thing in life I can control.
I am inimitable.
I am an original”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton Vocal Selections Piano Vocal Sheet Music Songbook | 17 Broadway Musical Hits by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Piano and Voice Music Book for Singers, Accompanists, and Theatre Fans

“What separates history from myth is that history takes in the whole picture, whereas myth averts our eyes from the truth when it turns men into heroes and gods.”
― Nancy Isenberg, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

“I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.”
― Gore Vidal, Burr

“Do you know much about Aaron Burr? There's a man, now, who is only damned and damned again in history and yet who had his parts. I have always designed writing something about him to show I did not stand in the jam of his vilifiers. I had a piece on him which should have gone into this book. You don't know (I guess I never told you) that when I was a lad, working in a lawyer's office, it fell to me to go over the river now and then with messages for Burr. Burr was very gentle--persuasive. He had a way of giving me a bit of fruit on these visits--an apple or a pear. I can see him clearly, still--his stateliness, gray hair, courtesy, consideration.”
― Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America: A Library of America Special Publication

“We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.”
― Gore Vidal, Burr

“History is not a bedtime story. It is a comprehensive engagement with often obscure documents and books no longer read—books shelved in old archives, and fragile pamphlets contemporaneous with the subject under study—all of which reflect a world view not ours.”
― Nancy Isenberg, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

“death doesn´t discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes and we keep livin´ anyway we laugh and we cry and we break and make our mistakes but if theres a reason im still alive when everyone who loves me has died im willing to wait for it”
― Lin Manuel Miranda