Quotes About Jefferson And Hamilton

#1. Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.

Gregory Maguire

#2. I think my mother was very spiritual.

John McGahern

#3. 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.

Henry Adams

#4. When nothing else works, eating sure does.

Joseph Fink

#5. Adventure is just about doing something you've never done - doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.

Alastair Humphreys

#6. 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.

Gail Collins

#7. 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.

James Truslow Adams

#8. 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.

David Scott

#9. 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

Charles A. Cerami

#10. I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

Isabel Burton

#11. I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

Paula Hawkins

#12. 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.

George F. Will

#13. 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.

John P. Avlon

#14. Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

Richard Brookhiser

#15. One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.

Eboo Patel

#16. 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.

Mike Huckabee

#17. Rivers of tear drops, these sharp pains in my heart, if this was the way that you love, you never should have loved me

Ashanti

#18. Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.

Joseph J. Ellis

#19. Americans could achieve Jefferson's democratic freedoms through Hamilton's economic development strategies and trade policies.

Patrick Mendis

#20. 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.

Patrick Mendis

#21. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Thomas S. Monson

#22. For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home.

Pearl S. Buck

#23. 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

Ron Chernow

#24. 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.

Thomas Jefferson

#25. There seems no plan because it is all plan.

C.S. Lewis

#26. I still couldn't see any rhyme or reason to fighting through countless obstacles for love only to have it leave you powerless in the end.

Kiera Cass