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Alexander Hamilton Quotes

Quotes by and about Alexander Hamilton

(Continued from his main entry on the site.)

Joseph J. Ellis: "[Hamilton had an] irritatingly imperial personality."

Joseph J. Ellis: "Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli."

Hibbing, Smith & Alford: "Alexander Hamilton and John Adams could be insufferable know-it-alls, intolerant of viewpoints other than their own."