I have told you and I told you truly that I love you too much. You engross my thoughts too entirely to allow me to think anything else. You not only … - Alexander Hamilton

To confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is so prevalent that I…would willingly risk my life, tho’ not my character, to exalt my station. I’m confident that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it, but I mean to prepare the way for futurity… My folly makes me ashamed, yet Neddy we have seen such schemes successful when the projector is constant. I shall conclude saying I wish there was a war.

to promote the election of some favorite class of men in exclusion of others, by confining the places of election to particular districts, and rendering it impracticable to the citizens at large to partake in the choice.

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.