Quotes About Hamilton And Jefferson

#1. There is an elegant memorial in Washington to Jefferson, but none to Hamilton. However, if you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. - Author: George F. Will

#2. I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret. - Author: Thomas Jefferson

#3. Unlike Jefferson, Hamilton never saw the creation of America as a magical leap across a chasm to an entirely new landscape, and he always thought the New World had much to learn from the Old. Probably - Author: Ron Chernow

#4. To achieve these Jeffersonian ends, Alexander Hamilton - Jefferson's philosophical rival - devised an ingenious strategy that entailed a strong manufacturing base, a national banking system, a centralized federal government, and an export-led economic scheme protected by the U.S. Navy. - Author: Patrick Mendis

#5. Americans could achieve Jefferson's democratic freedoms through Hamilton's economic development strategies and trade policies. - Author: Patrick Mendis

#6. Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli. - Author: Joseph J. Ellis

#7. What do you eat?"
"Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#8. We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear that the courts can't make a law. The Constitution is expressly clear that that's a power reserved to Congress. - Author: Mike Huckabee

#9. Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all. - Author: Richard Brookhiser

#10. You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past. - Author: Bruce Springsteen

#11. The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Federalists. But the heirs of Washington would be all Americans. - Author: John P. Avlon

#12. You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. - Author: Edward O. Wilson

#13. A lady's success will so often be looked on with dark suspicion, while a dude's success is looked on as his due. - Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

#14. Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around. - Author: Chet Atkins

#15. From that point on, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and a few other intimates made it their first priority to arrange a deal with Hamilton - letting him have his assumption plan, but hopefully in the form of a compromise that would force him to give up something in return. Chapter - Author: Charles A. Cerami

#16. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for each other did not come before the love of their country. - Author: David Scott

#17. It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body. - Author: James Truslow Adams

#18. It is more a mentality than the actual places people live, as Jefferson and Hamilton would argue about - city versus country. For example, someone could have an empty place mentality yet be living in a condo in Boca Raton. - Author: Gail Collins

#19. Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress. - Author: Henry Adams

#20. Why ever are you here?" she whispered, putting her hands to his face.
"Because I love you."
In so many ways, that explained nothing ... and told her everything she needed to know. - Author: J.R. Ward

#21. You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship. - Author: Jennifer Lopez

#22. The natures of men and women are very mixed and for me the most fascinating type of woman is the one who is a little masculine, has a little of the man in her, and the sort of man who is fabulous is the one who is a little woman too. It's impossible not to mix them! - Author: Sonia Rykiel