“There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.”
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Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.