Alexander Hamilton Quotes
This man [Aaron Burr] has no principles, public or private. As a politician, his sole spring of action is an inordinate ambition.
Alexander Hamilton, 1755-1804, Aide-de-camp to General Washington, Member of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury (Federalist, NY), Quoted in McPhee, The Book of Insults, 1978
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For this and other “insulting” remarks, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel in 1804 and killed him. However, the result was that Hamilton’s view of Burr was given huge publicity and Burr’s political career died along with Hamilton.
In 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt instructed his Attorney General to file one of America’s first and the largest anti-trust case against Northern Securities Company. The President was a Republican and a patrician. Most of his social acquaintances and a few friends were totally surprised that the President could turn against his own class in what they saw as an act of class warfare. They sought explanations for the unthinkable.
Referring to Lyndon B. Johnson:
Describing Charles F. Adams, 1807-1886, son of John Quincy Adams:
Kellis had blown the whistle on the Central Intelligence Agency as well as castigated Director Allan Dulles. The President acted and appointed General Jimmy Doolittle to conduct an investigation which confirmed the Kellis letter about the Central Intelligence Agency. The President ordered reforms but left Dulles in place as director. While Kellis was offended by Dulles’s immoral, un-Christian behaviors, some thought that we had to have people like that. See {634614} for a view that Eisenhower considered in keeping Dulles in place.
who support the King of England He was one of the very few British Appointed Colonial American Governors who sided with the Patriots in the American Revolutionary war, and was elected Governor after the war when Connecticut was a State.
Alexander Hamilton was an American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the founder of the nation's financial system, the Federalist Party, the United States Coast Guard, and the New York Post newspaper. As the first secretary of the treasury, Hamilton was the main author of the economic policies of George Washington's administration. He took the lead in the federal government's funding of the states' debts, as well as establishing the nation's first two de facto central banks, the Bank of North America and the First Bank of the United States, a system of tariffs, and friendly trade relations with Britain. His vision included a strong central government led by a vigorous executive branch, a strong commercial economy, government-controlled banks, support for manufacturing, and a strong military.
