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“Could the fractious tendencies engendered by years of fighting be channeled in constructive directions? The Revolution had unified sharply disparate groups. Without the bonds of wartime comradeship, would the divisive pulls of class, region, and ideology tear the new country apart?”
― Ron Chernow

“Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance

“People tended either to embrace Hamilton or to abhor him;”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“It’s always the scuffs in the marble that make its inner light seem to glow more brightly.”
― Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange