I find the Wikipedia Hamilton entry amusing: "He displayed a remarkable flair for business and leadership skills that involved dealing with senior ship captains and businessmen on an equal basis, as well as expanding operations to include the trade of illicit goods such as opium and refined coca extract."
Modern analogue? "He was a professional, enterprising young man eschewed McDonald's for the more robust profits of dealing crack."
And why don't we hear more about threatening political enemies with an army?
Final delicious Hamilton quote: "All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people...The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government." (June 18, 1787).
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I find the Wikipedia Hamilton entry amusing: "He displayed a remarkable flair for business and leadership skills that involved dealing with senior ship captains and businessmen on an equal basis, as well as expanding operations to include the trade of illicit goods such as opium and refined coca extract."
Modern analogue? "He was a professional, enterprising young man eschewed McDonald's for the more robust profits of dealing crack."
And why don't we hear more about threatening political enemies with an army?
Final delicious Hamilton quote: "All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people...The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government." (June 18, 1787).
Um, what part of "We the people" is unclear?
Also, the rich will "cannot receive any advantage by a change"? Really? That man must have had a very poor imagination.
Ugh, he does not look nearly as hot in that "portrait" as he does on a 10-spot.
Yes, he has fine, sensitive cheekbones and a cute nose on the tenner.
Not to mention that noble brow.
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