It seems incredible that a man so transcendently great as Hamilton--easily the foremost creative mind in American statesmanship--should have succumbed to personal animosities such as he displayed toward John Adams, and toward Aaron Burr.
Beveridge reflects on the surprising personal conflicts that influenced Hamilton's political decisions.
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He has raised the American people in their own esteem, and, if the influence of truth and justice, reason and argument is not lost in Europe, he has raised the consideration of the United States in that quarter of the world....
The Spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?
The nature of men forbids us to conclude that we are in no danger from war.
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