Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton was an exuberant genius who performed at a fiendish pace and must have produced the maximum number of words that a human being can scratch out in forty-nine years.

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

Alexander Hamilton never needed to worry about leading a tedious, uneventful life. Drama shadowed his footsteps.

praised Hamilton as a very great man, but not a great American

Justice shall be done to the memory of my Hamilton

eloquence and longevity

I am so tired. It is so long. I want to see Hamilton

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

Cornwallis had grown so desperate that he infected blacks with smallpox and forced them to wander toward enemy lines in an attempt to sicken the opposing forces

Tens of thousands of onlookers gaped in amazement as the shattered British troops marched out of Yorktown and, to the tune of an old English ballad, “The World Turned Upside Down,” moved between parallel rows of handsomely outfitted French soldiers and battered, ragged American troops