Alexander Hamilton/burr-hamilton Duel

Famous quotes containing the words alexander, hamilton and/or duel:

    “Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It’s in having taken an ethos ... where you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

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

    “She is very clever.
    She is old, old, old, she must live another year, and she knows it.
    While in their fingerjoint cells the new virgins

    Dream of a duel they will win inevitably,”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)