Hamilton

Famous quotes containing the word hamilton:

    “Last night there was four Maries,
    The night there’ll be but three;
    There was Marie Seton, and Marie Beton,
    And Marie Carmichael, and me.”
    —Unknown. Mary Hamilton (l. 69–72)

    None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
    —Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)

    A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
    —Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804)