Quotes by Joseph J. Ellis, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

“Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.”

“It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.”

“Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.”