I'll take one Henry willing to raise a body of troops with his own funds over 10 Hamiltons wishing to erect a strong central government with a new king.
The nations descent into democracy and tyranny our direct consequence of the ignorance and placidity of the populace.
A free republic will not be restored by driving off the cliff more slowly (or more quickly, considering the rapacious appetite of our GOP Congress has demonstrated for spending money these last two years and handing power to the president). Bush is now on record supporting banning guns. If he puts his signature to a bill banning guns he'll do more damage to his party and the cause of freedom than he would by standing for freedom and explaining why to an American public that trusts him. I don't think the GOP benefits from masking it's intentions like the Democrats, it benefits from clearly elucidating them.
I'll grant you that Henry came around (after a disappointing start in the Revolutionary War) to be an excellent governor of Virginia. But Sam Adams as far as I am concerned was the equivalent of Al Sharpton - out there rabble rousing and getting people killed. (It's not his picture on the beer, by the way, it's Copley's portrait of Paul Revere, which has been altered several times over the life of the brand to look less like Paul and more like a generic modern American. It never looked like Sam. He was too ugly to sell beer with.)
We had counterbalance to Hamilton in Jefferson and Franklin and George Mason (my personal favorite). I don't imagine for a minute that Hamilton could have foreseen the fix we're in today. The Articles of Confederation had already proved a total failure when it came to running anything. . . . as it turned out the Constitution was the best workable plan at the time.
But if the Revolution had been left to the likes of Adams and Henry, it would never have gotten off the ground. Boston, New York, and maybe the Saratoga campaign would have been the end. Ideologues need counterweights to actually accomplish anything - they can lead the parade, but they can't do the grunt work.