Katy found some great quotes from Alexander Hamilton in her book on his life by Ron Chernow:
"Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep in their composition . . . I hate Congress, I hate the Army, I hate the world, I hate myself. The whole is a mass of fools and knaves."
"Over time, the inflation has acquired a self-reinforcing momentum. Economic fundamentals alone could not account for this inflation, detecting a critical psychological factor at work. People were governed more by passion and prejudice than by an enlightened sense of their interests . . . this misfortune affects me less than others, because it is not in my temper to repine at evils that are past but to endeavor to draw good out of them and because I think our safety depends on a total change of system and this change of system will only be produced by misfortune."
Don't know much about him but I like him already. Guess things haven't changed much since this country was founded after all! Even with all our technological advances, we're still just dumb monkeys.
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