I am inimitable, I am an original.” -Burr, “Wait for It”ġ3. Just you wait, just you wait.” -Hamilton, “Satisfied”ġ2. “I am the one thing in life I can control. “There’s a million things I haven’t done. Drop the niceties.” -Hamilton, “A Farmer Refuted”ġ1. “Burr I’d rather be divisive than indecisive. “Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now! History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be in the greatest city in the world.” -The Schuyler Sisters, “The Schuyler Sisters”ġ0. So listen to my declaration: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” And when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel!” -Angelica Schuyler, “The Schuyler Sisters”ĩ. “You want a revolution? I want a revelation. And when our children tell our story, they’ll tell the story of tonight.” -Hamilton, “The Story of Tonight”Ĩ. “I may not live to see our glory, but I will gladly join the fight. Every action’s an act of creation!” -Hamilton, “My Shot”ħ.
“I’m past patiently waitin’ I’m passionately smashin’ every expectation. “I never had a group of friends before, I promise that I’ll make y’all proud.” -Hamilton, “My Shot”Ħ. (You guys, I’m so obsessed with this quote that I put it on my Levo profile.)ĥ. “I’m just like my country-I’m young, scrappy, and hungry, and I am not throwing away my shot.” -Hamilton, “My Shot”Ĥ. “The plan is to fan this spark into a flame.” -Hamilton, “My Shot” “If you stand for nothing Burr what’ll you fall for?” -Hamilton, “Aaron Burr, Sir”ģ. In New York you can be a new man.” -Aaron Burr, “Alexander Hamilton”Ģ. See him now as he stands on the bow of a ship headed for a new land.
Scammin’ for every book he can get his hands on, plannin’ for the future. Started workin’, clerkin’ for his late mother’s landlord, tradin’ sugarcane and rum and all the things he can’t afford.
He would’ve been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution. “There would have been nothin’ left to do for someone less astute. I cried six or thirty-seven times while making this list.ġ. If you’re lacking inspiration, try combining the two! Even if you haven’t seen Hamilton yet, go ahead and listen to it as you read. Anyone who has seen Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights or Hamilton knows that he is, in my opinion, our generation’s Shakespeare.
Regardless of what high school history courses have taught you, Alexander Hamilton is the unsung hero of the revolutionary generation. To commemorate both Alexander’s birthday and the awe-inspiring talent of Lin Manuel Miranda, I give you the lyrics below. It was on this day, January 11th, 1755, when Alexander Hamilton was born on a small island in the British West Indies.
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