I did a lot of stupid things. If it was a book, it would be a bloody good read.
JOHN HAMILTON The Times-Picayune continued to operate on the World Wide Web, and WWL-TV continued to broadcast eve...
JOHN MAXWELL HAMILTON No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.
JOHN LORD O'BRIAN There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge a...
JOHN LORD O'BRIAN It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL Among the defects of the Bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence an...
LORD JOHN RUSSELL Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.
JOHN W LORD There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was c...
JOHN W LORD A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1) Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by it...
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1) When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
SCOTT HAMILTON Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skii...
TYLER HAMILTON A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
NATASHA HAMILTON We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!
NATASHA HAMILTON Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.
NATASHA HAMILTON I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me...
NATASHA HAMILTON If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.
NATASHA HAMILTON I love anything quiz related.
NATASHA HAMILTON The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was...
NIGEL HAMILTON I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the s...
NIGEL HAMILTON That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get sl...
NIGEL HAMILTON Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was b...
NIGEL HAMILTON After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just eas...
NIGEL HAMILTON What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - w...
NIGEL HAMILTON In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel...
NIGEL HAMILTON The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collatera...
NIGEL HAMILTON We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a mon...
NIGEL HAMILTON I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneui...
NIGEL HAMILTON At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi...
NIGEL HAMILTON The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn...
NIGEL HAMILTON As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter ...
NIGEL HAMILTON Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi...
NIGEL HAMILTON I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like...
NIGEL HAMILTON I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
SCOTT HAMILTON When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passiv...
HAMILTON JORDAN Some commoners are less common than others.
ALAN HAMILTON In the last week,
ALAN HAMILTON In the opulence of its set, its cast was remarkably adept and it was richly endowed with character a...
ALAN HAMILTON There is, as yet, no Beast and definitely no Bitch.
ALAN HAMILTON Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge.
ALAN HAMILTON We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
HAMILTON JORDAN The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and ...
HAMILTON JORDAN If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is w...
HAMILTON JORDAN I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass...
HAMILTON JORDAN The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it ...
HAMILTON JORDAN My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people...
HAMILTON JORDAN If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an...
HAMILTON JORDAN If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, give...
HAMILTON JORDAN And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these opti...
HAMILTON JORDAN The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination proc...
HAMILTON JORDAN You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he r...
HAMILTON JORDAN We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to ...
HAMILTON JORDAN It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. ...
HAMILTON JORDAN I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a polit...
HAMILTON JORDAN I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
HAMILTON JORDAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski t...
TYLER HAMILTON Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h...
GAIL HAMILTON Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON [T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The first step must be, of course, an inquiry into the extent of our industrial sickness, and he det...
ALICE HAMILTON Surely there is every reason why we should devote to this disease the same intelligence and energy t...
ALICE HAMILTON No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
ALICE HAMILTON It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the P...
ALICE HAMILTON It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States und...
ALICE HAMILTON Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation...
ALICE HAMILTON From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men w...
ALICE HAMILTON Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
ALICE HAMILTON Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of...
ALICE HAMILTON Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little gi...
BETHANY HAMILTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of any individual without...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them prope...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations...
VIJALI HAMILTON " Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuou...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
SCOTT HAMILTON I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing ...
HUGO HAMILTON To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self...
HAMILTON MABIE Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchas...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard befor...
HAMILTON JORDAN You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many o...
ADAM HAMILTON We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in...
ADAM HAMILTON A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
NIGEL HAMILTON There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I think the first duty of society is justice.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but...
BETHANY HAMILTON There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular c...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It&...
ANTHONY HAMILTON Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.
GEORGE HAMILTON It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the p...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in lo...
ALLAN HAMILTON 'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to...
ANTHONY HAMILTON God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of lig...
ADAM HAMILTON I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like an...
BETHANY HAMILTON Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometim...
BETHANY HAMILTON I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing...
BETHANY HAMILTON We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wou...
BETHANY HAMILTON I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little gi...
BETHANY HAMILTON God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own,...
BETHANY HAMILTON One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have t...
BETHANY HAMILTON God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just m...
BETHANY HAMILTON Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abno...
BETHANY HAMILTON I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became C...
BETHANY HAMILTON Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have en...
BETHANY HAMILTON Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging thing...
BETHANY HAMILTON To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's s...
BETHANY HAMILTON Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me.
BETHANY HAMILTON I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfin...
BETHANY HAMILTON When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a strongho...
BETHANY HAMILTON I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don't think I...
BETHANY HAMILTON Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.
BETHANY HAMILTON Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!
BETHANY HAMILTON Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!
BETHANY HAMILTON Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may ha...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.
NIGEL HAMILTON I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy year...
NIGEL HAMILTON I belong to the Boston Biographers Group - and get my monthly 'fix' from them. Where else ca...
NIGEL HAMILTON Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our s...
NIGEL HAMILTON Both JFK and George W. Bush were the sons of wealthy U.S. ambassadors and thus privileged to meet di...
NIGEL HAMILTON I'm fascinated by the concept of what I call 'clusters of creativity': the Brontes, the ...
NIGEL HAMILTON I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American po...
NIGEL HAMILTON I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Ceza...
NIGEL HAMILTON To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin&#...
NIGEL HAMILTON Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focu...
NIGEL HAMILTON President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval g...
NIGEL HAMILTON In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I ...
NIGEL HAMILTON Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.
NIGEL HAMILTON Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' pre...
NIGEL HAMILTON My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after t...
NIGEL HAMILTON It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned ...
NIGEL HAMILTON I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!
NIGEL HAMILTON Some of the History Channel's documentaries involve docudrama segments and are highly speculativ...
NIGEL HAMILTON Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency...
NIGEL HAMILTON Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation t...
NIGEL HAMILTON Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude i...
BETHANY HAMILTON Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON