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"If Washington was the father of the country and Madison the father of the Constitution, then Alexander Hamilton was surely the father of the American government."
— Jun 23, 2020 05:01PM
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"Contrary to many of his compatriots, Hamilton thought America had much to learn from Europe[...]. 'Self-sufficiency and a contempt of the science and experience of others are too prevailing traits of character in this country,' he wailed to John Jay. (This attitude was of a piece with his dismay over the Jeffersonian faith that Americans had much to teach the world but little to learn from it.)"
— Jun 27, 2020 06:39AM
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"Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism."
— Jun 14, 2020 07:58AM
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"Prejudice and private interest will be antagonists too powerful for public spirit and public good," Alexander Hamilton, 1779.
— Jun 13, 2020 05:21AM
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"Hamilton was an exuberant genius who performed at a fiendish pace and must have produced the maximum number of words that a human being can scratch out in forty-nine years."
— Jan 11, 2020 04:39PM
