I was duped ... by the Secretary of the treasury, and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.

Hamilton is really a colossus... without numbers, he is a host unto himself.

I invited them to dine with me, and after dinner, sitting at our wine, having settled our question, other conversation came on, in which a collision of opinion…

This I can venture to advance from a thorough knowledge of him, that there are few men to be found, of his age, who has a more general knowledge than he posses…

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.