Ellen Speicher

“the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“Hamilton dreaded parties as “the most fatal disease” of popular governments and hoped America could dispense with such groups.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people,” he told Morris. “In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American ground? Or what is it that thus torments me at a circumstance so calmly viewed by almost everybody else? Am I a fool, a romantic Quixote, or is there a constitutional defect in the American mind? Were it not for yourself and a few others, I…would say…there is something in our climate which belittles every animal, human or brute…. I disclose to you without reserve the state of my mind. It is discontented and gloomy in the extreme. I consider the cause of good government as having been put to an issue and the verdict against it.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton