"He [ Hamilton] smote the rock of the national resources, and
abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the
dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet."

-- DANIEL WEBSTER

"Nothing of this work has ever been undone by succeeding
generations of public servants, but has merely expanded and
unfolded under the pressure of circumstances. . . . For his
contrivance was like no human-made garment that is soon
worn threadbare and outgrown, but rather like the bark of a
tree, that from the very nature of its being is never inadequate,
since it is a part of the living organism which it covers."

-- FREDERICK SCOTT OLIVER

"Hamilton's men of enlightenment -- those who were to bul-
wark the new government and cement the Union -- had served
an ultimatum: No assumption, no funding. They would get
their profits, or let the nation go to pieces."

-- IRVING BRANT

". . . no ethical gilding could quite conceal a certain ruthless-
ness of purpose; in practice justice became synonymous with
expediency, and expediency was curiously like sheer Tory will
to power."

-- VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON

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