Quotes About Aaron Burr

#1. Much of the country cursed Aaron Burr. He never recovered his political reputation. He wandered Europe for several years. When he was an old man, a thoughtful Aaron said, 'I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me.

Don Brown

#2. Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

Richard Brookhiser

#3. Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In the worst case, this may have long range effects, prompting the reader intuitively, subconsciously, to do evil while thinking they're doing good.

Michael O'Brien

#4. Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Bill Simmons

#5. I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.

Gore Vidal

#6. Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie

#7. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Aaron Burr Jr.

#8. We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.

Gore Vidal

#9. Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Aaron Burr

#10. Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

Tom Bissell

#11. Go West, young man.

Aaron Burr

#12. The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Aaron Burr

#13. To the union of all honest men.

Aaron Burr Jr.

#14. What separates history from myth is that history takes in the whole picture, whereas myth averts our eyes from the truth when it turns men into heroes and gods.

Nancy Isenberg

#15. When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.

Chris Oyakhilome

#16. I imagine it is because you can lead him to a story for his newspaper, and if it is for his paper, it must be something to make Hamilton look poorly.

David Liss

#17. I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

Aaron Burr

#18. Soon enough, Miner stopped caring who was watching - for a brief time, he and Ennek were a universe of two.

Kim Fielding

#19. No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Neal Boortz

#20. Life doesn't discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes
And we keep living anyway
We rise and we fall and we break
And we make our mistakes

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#21. Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Aaron Burr

#22. Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

Aaron Burr

#23. This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them on one side, or believing them on the other. They are formed by the head, in compliance with custom, though disavowed by the heart, in consequence of nature.

Lord Chesterfield

#24. The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Thomas Huxley

#25. Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

Aaron Burr