Vigilance & Responsibility

National Review Online ^ | 16 January 2006 | Mackubin Thomas Owens

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This past week (January 11) marked the 251st anniversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton, whom Richard Brookhiser described as the greatest of the Founders except for George Washington. Hamilton's detractors, beginning with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams did not deny his greatness, but feared his motives. They described him as a lover of monarchy whose goal was to corrupt the republican virtue of the American people by means of his economic schemes. Since then, many writers, reflecting the view of his contemporary adversaries, have depicted Hamilton as the "prince of darkness" in a Manichean struggle with Thomas Jefferson for the soul of the American republic or as a "militarist," a Caesar or a Bonaparte, bent on tyranny at home and conquest abroad.

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I listed this under the war on terror thread due to the fact that I think a good deal of what is said could be applied today. Too bad today's Demo-craps don't read their history. A little long but a good read.