Top 80 Hamilton Quotes

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers
Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone’s anything. If he’s telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?
Henry Rollins
The reason ‘Hamilton’ works is because there is no distance between that story that happened 200-some-odd years ago and now, because it looks like America now. It helps create a connection that wouldn’t have been there if it was 20 white guys on stage.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Some ‘Terminator’ fans are outraged that I’m playing Sarah Connor. They think I’m not muscly enough. To be honest, I’m a little tired of the comparisons to Linda Hamilton. I know she will always be the original Sarah Connor, but when people see what I bring to the role, they will look at her with new eyes.
Lena Headey
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton’s Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
Herbert Croly
The fact that I got to do the ‘Hamilton’ BET Cypher is a totally crazy thing because I’ve watched the BET Cyphers since it started. I’ve seen every one. I study them. Because I’m a rapper. It’s what you do.
Daveed Diggs
In the ’80s, ‘Dreamgirls’ was our ‘Hamilton.’ It was cutting-edge, and it was what made me want to do theater.
Angela Robinson
With ‘Hamilton,’ what’s cool about the show is that even super-old white people come to see the show and hang on every word, it’s that good.
Okieriete Onaodowan
I know it’s hard for people to imagine a time when ‘Hamilton’ wasn’t ‘Hamilton,’ but for years, it was just this little thing that I was telling people about that didn’t make any sense to anybody as I was describing it. But I loved it.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I know Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin of old, having worked with them for many years on ‘Outnumbered.’
Hugh Dennis
I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.
Ryan White
Oh my God, when I auditioned for ‘Hamilton,’ I kept messing up the words to ‘Say No To This.’
Jasmine Cephas Jones
I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of

I’m really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He’s an interior designer and he’s really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.
Kathleen Robertson
I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long.
Darren Flutie
What I know is that the possibilities are always endless when it comes to ‘Hamilton.’ It’s broken several records. Audiences are really being touched by it, they’re being moved by it, and they’re in love with the music.
Joshua Henry
When I am driving to an audition, I listen to the ‘Hamilton: The Musical’ soundtrack. It’s super inspiring, but also, if I kind of sing-slash-rap along to it, it helps me with my pronunciation and dialect.
Lana Condor
I think for a lot of us, you know, what ‘Hamilton’ gave us the opportunity to, what it gave me the opportunity to do, was to go, ‘Here’s what I’ve learned in 35 years.’
Leslie Odom, Jr.
If people are coming to ‘Hamilton’ to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.
Brandon Victor Dixon
I am proud of Edinburgh’s status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That’s a link worth keeping.
Rory Bremner
‘Hamilton’ is a game-changer for the musical theater genre. It’s moved the art form forward so much and redefined so many things about what we do in theater, so it’s pretty hard to oversell it.
Rory O’Malley
The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.
Robert Zoellick
Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.
Jim Gerlach
Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.
Ron Chernow
The Hamilton name will live on way beyond me now, which I’m very happy to be a part of.
Lewis Hamilton
Yeah, I’m the Brit who isn’t Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I was young, flying around in jets and driving fast cars. I always took my driving seriously, but I suppose I enjoyed life… But I’m not a playboy.
Jenson Button
‘The Irish Duke’ is a sequel to ‘The Decadent Duke’ about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. ‘The Irish Duke’ tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn.
Virginia Henley
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton’s decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.
Marc Racicot
Hamilton’ has changed my life in so many ways. I really do have a family from that show. The people that I shared that stage with every night- they mean so much to me and they’re so special and so talented. I’m just a fan of every single one of them and it was an honor to share that stage with them.
Jasmine Cephas Jones
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
John Podhoretz
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: ‘It does nothing! It creates chaos! It’s a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!’
Adam Davidson