Lex’s Reviews > Alexander Hamilton > Status Update

“A man in a mask, sometimes of silk, sometimes of iron, and sometimes of brass.”

“He [Hamilton] had learned a lesson about propaganda in politics and mused wearily that ‘no character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.’ If a charge was made often enough, people assumed in the end ‘that a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent.’”

“Give all power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give al power to the few, they will oppress the many.”

“If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.”