Quotes of Hamilton - somelinesforyou

“ 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 Will

“ We the people; it is a very eloquent beginning. But when the Constitution of the United States was completed on the seventeenth of September, 1787, I was not included in the "We the people." I felt for many years that somehow George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. ”

- Barbara Jordan

“ In general, I tend to favor teachers over school boards in conflicts. Not that teachers are always right but school boards are often used by the politically ambitious as a step up the ladder. The politically ambitious rarely become kindergarten teachers. ”

- Jon Carroll

“ In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. ”

- William Hull

“ The way I could sell the most records was suggested to me by James Newton Howard, is to do an album of piano instrumentals with orchestra. Put a handsome guy on the cover, give him a name like Brian Hamilton, call it Starstreams and put it out without my name on it. ”

- Randy Newman
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