Alexander Hamilton Quotes

“Working behind the scenes to advance his candidacy, Hamilton seemed unfazed by the fact that virtually all other commissions were going to native New Yorkers of wealth and social position. Here was a bastard, a newcomer who had arrived as an orphaned immigrant little more than three years earlier. But he was a nova whose writing, speaking, and fighting talents had dazzled more timid men with better claims on command.”
― Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander Hamilton: A Life

“Hamilton’s second pamphlet made clear his maturing belief that private interest was the glue that would hold American society together and make it succeed. Just as long as Americans learned to rein in their impulse toward unbridled greed and could control, channel, and regulate their prosperity for the public good, they would be invincible even against English military might. 22”
― Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander Hamilton: A Life

“This time styling himself “Friend to America,” Hamilton was sure that what he wrote would never change Loyalists’ minds: The intellectual eye of every advocate for despotism is too much blinded to perceive the force of just argumentation.”
― Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander Hamilton: A Life

“It is to be hoped that, when prejudice and folly have run themselves out of breath, we may return to reason and correct our errors.41”
― Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander Hamilton: A Life

“One glaring problem was that the Continental Army, with few experienced officers, had to rely on foreign mercenaries. European officers from twenty countries”
― Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander Hamilton: A Life

“Records of Nevis, they received a deed to property”
― Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander Hamilton: A Life

“in status, he became a plantation manager,”
― Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander Hamilton: A Life

“While he was to become adept at business, Hamilton, the man who was to found America’s financial system, as a schoolboy had to struggle with mathematics.”
― Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander Hamilton: A Life