Rue

“Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

“Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes, and we keep living anyway....”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Why do you write like you're running out of time?”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“[BURR]
I am the one thing in life I can control.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution