Michael

“Errors once discovered are more than half amended,”
― Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life

“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.”54”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“The country, still reeling from programs the treasury secretary had churned out in a mere fifteen months, was learning just how fertile Hamilton’s brain was. He was setting in place the building blocks for a powerful state: public credit, an efficient tax system, a customs service, and now a strong central bank.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“The volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the world on fire.”
― Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life