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In late 2015 the Broadway musical Hamilton took the world by storm. Writers Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ron Chernow converted Alexander Hamilton's biography into a fun and exciting musical for the whole family.

The musical begins in Hamilton's childhood and slowly progresses to his adult life. It shows his struggles in politics and his personal life with his wife and children. Hamilton also features diverse actors to play the founding fathers which was a huge step in Broadway. Leslie Odom Jr. plays Aaron Burr while Lin-Manuel himself plays the main role of Alexander Hamilton.

The 10 Best Quotes from "Hamilton"

Hamilton highlights the trials and tribulations of Alexander Hamilton's life through song and occasional rap educating people all over the world about how Hamilton lived and died.

The songs "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)", "Wait For It", "The Schuyler Sisters' and more have become fan favorites all over the world. Hamilton was Miranda's breakout into Broadway and songwriting in general.

The play transitioned into a movie in 2020 with most of the original cast from the Broadway show.

You can stream Hamilton and more of Lin-Manuel Miranda's movies on Disney+!

Here's the scoop on the best Hamilton quotes!

Warning!! This article may contain Hamilton spoilers!

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1. "History is entirely created by the person who tells the story." – Alexander Hamilton

2. "I look forward to our partnership." – Aaron Burr

Daveed Diggs is Thomas Jefferson in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

3. "Winning was easy, young man. Governing is harder." – George Washington

4. "Look, when Britain taxed our tea, we got frisky. Imagine what's gonna happen when you try to tax our whiskey."– Thomas Jefferson

Jasmine Cephas Jones is Peggy Schuyler, Phillipa Soo is Eliza Hamilton and Renée Elise Goldsberry is Angelica Schuyler in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

5. "What comes next? You've been freed. Do you know how hard it is to lead? You're on your own. Awesome. Wow. Do you have a clue what happens now?" – King George III

6. "Immigrants: We get the job done." – Company

Daveed Diggs is Marquis de Lafayette and Okieriete Onaodowan is Hercules Mulligan in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

7. "I've seen wonders great and small. Cuz if the tomcat can get married. There's hope for our ass, after all!" -John Laurens

8. "There's a million things I haven't done but just you wait, just you wait." – Alexander Hamilton

Leslie Odom, Jr. is Aaron Burr in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

9. "Go home, Alexander." – George Washington

10. "Lock up your daughters and horses, of course it's hard to have intercourse over four sets of corsets." -Hercules Mulligan

Lin-Manuel Miranda is Alexander Hamilton and Leslie Odom, Jr. is Aaron Burr in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

11. "Everything is legal in New Jersey." – Alexander and Philip

12. "Now I'm the villain in your history. I was too young and blind to see… I should've known. The world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me." – Aaron Burr

13. "Why do you write like you're running out of time?" – Eliza Hamilton

14. "I'll give him this: His financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I tried." – Thomas Jefferson

Lin-Manuel Miranda is Alexander Hamilton and Phillipa Soo is Eliza Hamilton in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

15. "I'm chasing what I want. And you know what? I learned that from you." – Aaron Burr

16. "My name is Philip. I am a poet. I'm a little nervous, but I can't show it. I'm sorry, I'm a Hamilton with pride. You talk about my father, I cannot let it slide." – Philip Hamilton

Daveed Diggs is the Marquis de Lafayette, Okieriete Onaodowan is Hercules Mulligan, Lin-Manuel Miranda is Alexander Hamilton, Leslie Odom, Jr. is Aaron Burr and Anthony Ramos is John Laurens in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

17. "I wrote my way out." – Alexander Hamilton

18. "I stop wasting time on tears. I live another fifty years. It's not enough." – Eliza Hamilton

20. "I'm just like my country. I'm young, scrappy, and hungry."- Alexander Hamilton

21. "Fools who run their mouth off wind up dead." – Aaron Burr

22. "Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned, our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain, put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain, and he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain." -James Madison

23. "Alexander Hamilton. My name is Alexander Hamilton. And there's a million things I haven't done… But just you wait, just you wait." – Alexander Hamilton

24. "I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love." – King George III

Phillipa Soo is Eliza Hamilton, Renée Elise Goldsberry is Angelica Schuyler and Jasmine Cephas Jones is Peggy Schuyler in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

25. "Rise up!" – Alexander Hamilton

26. "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now!" – Eliza Hamilton

daveed diggs — Daveed Diggs is Marquis de Lafayette in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

27. "When I fantasize at night it's Alexander's eyes, as I romanticize what might have been if I hadn't sized him up so quickly. At least my dear Eliza's his wife; at least I keep his eyes in my life…" – Angelica Schuyler

28. "I am not a maiden in need of defending; I am grown." – George Washington

Christopher Jackson is George Washington and Lin-Manuel Miranda is Alexander Hamilton in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

29. Can we get back to politics, please?" – Thomas Jefferson

30. "Every other founding father's story gets told. Every other founding father gets to grow old." – Angelica Shuyler

Renée Elise Goldsberry is Angelica Schuyler in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

31. "I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory. Is this where it gets me, on my feet, several feet ahead of me? I see it coming, do I run or fire my gun or let it be? There is no beat, no melody." – Alexander Hamilton

32. "He's never gonna be president now. That's one less thing to worry about." – Thomas Jefferson

Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Chris Jackson, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, Phillipa Soo, and Anthony Ramos in Hamilton (2020)

33. "Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room? Soon that attitude may be your doom!" – Aaron Burr

34. "My name's been through a lot. I can take it." – George Washington

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Seth Stewart, Thayne Jasperson, Ephraim Sykes, Ariana DeBose, and Sydney James Harcourt in Hamilton (2020)

35. Wait 'til I sally in on a stallion with the first Black battalion." – John Laurens

36. "You can write rhymes, but you can't write mine." -Philip Hamilton

Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Chris Jackson, Samantha Kelly, Ariana DeBose, Phillipa Soo, and Anthony Ramos in Hamilton (2020)

37. "I'm takin this horse by the reins makin' redcoats redder with bloodstains." – Lafayette

38. "How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower somehow defeat a global superpower?" – Aaron Burr

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Ramos, and Carleigh Bettiol in Hamilton (2020)

39. "Hercules Mulligan, I need no introduction." – Hercules Mulligan

40. "My dearest, Angelica, 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day.' I trust you'll understand the reference to another Scottish tragedy without my having to name the play." – Alexander Hamilton

Hope Easterbrook, Seth Stewart, Thayne Jasperson, Samantha Kelly, Jon Rua, Ephraim Sykes, Ariana DeBose, Elizabeth Judd, Austin Smith, Daveed Diggs, Sasha Hutchings, Sydney James Harcourt, and Carleigh Bettiol in Hamilton (2020)

41. "Let me tell you what I wish I'd known when I was young and dreamed of glory: You have no control: Who lives, who dies, who tells your story." – George Washington

42. "This is not a moment, it's the movement." -Alexander Hamilton

Hope Easterbrook, Seth Stewart, Thayne Jasperson, Samantha Kelly, Jon Rua, Ephraim Sykes, Ariana DeBose, Elizabeth Judd, Austin Smith, Sasha Hutchings, Sydney James Harcourt, and Carleigh Bettiol in Hamilton (2020)

43. "No one else was in the room where it happened. No one really knows how the game is played, the art of the trade, how the sausage gets made. We just assume that it happens. But no one else is in the room where it happens." – Aaron Burr

44. "I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish." – Alexander Hamilton

45. "Best of wives and best of women." – Alexander Hamilton

46. "Helpless! Look into your eyes, and the sky's the limit, I'm helpless! Down for the count, and I'm drowning in 'em." – Eliza Hamilton

Renée Elise Goldsberry, Chris Jackson, Seth Stewart, Samantha Kelly, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Phillipa Soo in Hamilton (2020)

47. "The ten-dollar founding father without a father got a lot farther by working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter." – John Laurens

48. "Don't be shocked when your hist'ry book mentions me. I will lay down my life if it sets us free. Eventually, you'll see my ascendancy…" – Alexander Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Phillipa Soo in Hamilton (2020)

49. "In New York you can be a new man." – Aaron Burr

50. "The world turned upside down." – Company

Jonathan Groff in Hamilton's America (2016)

51. "Look at where you are. Look at where you started. The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough." – Eliza Hamilton

52. "If there's a fire you're trying to douse, you can't put it out from inside the house!" – Thomas Jefferson

Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Jackson, and Phillipa Soo in Hamilton (2020)

53. "Legacy. What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see." – Alexander Hamilton

54. "We push away what we can never understand. We push away the unimaginable." – Angelica Schuyler

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr. in Hamilton (2020)

55. "He's never gonna be president now." – Company

56. "When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game. But you don't get a win unless you play in the game." – Alexander Hamilton

Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Chris Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Phillipa Soo, and Anthony Ramos in Hamilton (2020)

57. "I'm a general, whee!" – Charles Lee

58. "How you say, no sweat. We're finally on the field. We've had quite a run." – Alexander Hamilton and Lafayette

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Chris Jackson in Hamilton (2020)

59. "And when you said, 'hi,' I forgot my dang name, set my heart aflame, every part a'flame." – Angelica Shuyler

60. "What'd I miss?" – Thomas Jefferson

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, and Anthony Ramos in Hamilton (2020)

61. "Talk less. Smile more."- Aaron Burr

62. "Burr, the revolution's imminent. What do you stall for?" – John Laurens

63. "Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is! Oh, am I talkin' too loud? Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth. I never had a group of friends before, I promise that I'll make y'all proud." – Alexander Hamilton

64. "Let's get this guy in front of a crowd." – John Laurens

Okieriete Onaodowan and Daveed Diggs in Hamilton (2020)

65. "I dream of life without a monarchy. The unrest in France will lead to 'onarchy? 'Onarchy? How you say, how you say, "anarchy?" When I fight, I make the other side panicky. With my— Shot!" – Marquis de Lafayette

66. "You want a revolution? I want a revelation!" – Eliza Hamilton

Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Phillipa Soo in Hamilton (2020)

67. "Outrun. Outlast. Hit 'em quick, get out fast." -George Washington

68. "I'm about to change your life." – Angelica Schuyler

69. "Can we agree that duels are dumb and immature?" – Aaron Burr

70. "Gotta start a new nation. Gotta meet my son." -Alexander Hamilton

71. "Hamilton doesn't hesitate. He exhibits no restraint. He takes and he takes and he takes and he keeps winning anyway. And if there's a reason he seems to thrive when so few survive, then Goddamnit—I'm willing to wait for it." – Aaron Burr

72. "I'm more than willing to die." – Alexander Hamilton

73. "My dog speaks more eloquently than thee!" -Alexander Hamilton

74. "If you stand for nothing, Burr, what will you fall for?" – Alexander Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., and Sydney James Harcourt in Hamilton (2020)

75. "How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?" – Aaron Burr

76. "I'm past patiently waiting, I'm passionately smashing every expectation. Every action's an act of creation!" – Alexander Hamilton

77. "The plan is to fan this spark into a flame." -Alexander Hamilton

78. "If they don't reach a peace, that's alright. Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site." – John Laurens

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, and Anthony Ramos in Hamilton (2020)

79. "Have you an ounce of regret? You accumulate debt, you accumulate power. Yet in their hour of need, you forget." – Thomas Jefferson

80. "I wrote Eliza love letters until she fell. I wrote about The Constitution and defended it well." – Alexander Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Chris Jackson, Thayne Jasperson, and Neil Haskell in Hamilton (2020)

81. " I stand by what I said, every bit of it. You stand only for yourself. It's what you do. I can't apologize because it's true." – Alexander Hamilton

82. "Then stand, Alexander. Weehawken. Dawn. Guns. Drawn." – Aaron Burr

Lin-Manuel Miranda is Alexander Hamilton and Daveed Diggs is the Marquis de Lafayette in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

83. "Do you know what Angelica said when we saw your first letter arrive? She said, 'Be careful with that one, love. He will do what it takes to survive.'" – Eliza Hamilton

84. "Is it a question of if, Burr, or which one?" -Alexander Hamilton

Jonathan Groff is King George in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

85. "Love doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints. It takes and it takes and it takes and we keep loving anyway." – Aaron Burr

86. "Forgiveness. Can you imagine?" – Company

Daveed Diggs is Thomas Jefferson and Okieriete Onaodowan is James Madison in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

87. What do you want, Burr?" – Alexander Hamilton

88. "We are a powder keg about to explode. I need someone like you to lighten the load." – George Washington

89. "We'll bleed and fight for you. We'll make it right for you. If we lay a strong enough foundation, we'll pass it on to you. We'll give the world to you and you'll blow us all away." – Aaron Burr

90. "I may not live to see our glory! But I'll gladly join the fight! And when our children tell our story… They'll tell the story of tonight." – Alexander Hamilton

Renée Elise Goldsberry is Angelica Schuyler and Lin-Manuel Miranda is Alexander Hamilton in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

91. "Since when are you a Democratic-Republican?" -Alexander Hamilton

92. "I have never been the type to try and grab the spotlight. We were at a revel with some rebels on a hot night, laughin' at my sister as she's dazzling the room then you walked in and my heart went, 'Boom!' – Eliza Hamilton

93. "Don't do a thing. History will prove him wrong." -George Washington

94. "Burr, we studied and we fought and we killed for the notion of a nation we now get to build." – Alexander Hamilton

broadway cast — (L-R): Anthony Ramos is John Laurens, Lin-Manuel Miranda is Alexander Hamilton, Daveed Diggs is the Marquis de Lafayette, and Okieriete Onaodowan is Hercules Mulligan in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

95. "Sir, I don't know what you heard but whatever it is, Jefferson started it." – Alexander Hamilton

96. "You're nothing without Washington behind you." – Thomas Jefferson

(L-R): Anthony Ramos is John Laurens, Lin-Manuel Miranda is Alexander Hamilton, and Okieriete Onaodowan is Hercules Mulligan in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

97. "Raise a glass to freedom…" – Alexander Hamilton

98. "And when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I'm a compel him to include women in the sequel!" – Angelica Shuyler

99. "God help me and forgive me. I wanna build something that's gonna outlive me." – Alexander Hamilton

100. "They say George Washington is yielding his power and stepping away. Is that true? I wasn't aware that was something a person could do." – King George III

Jasmine Cephas Jones is Maria Reynolds in HAMILTON, the filmed version of the original Broadway production.

Movies like Encanto, In the Heights, and Moana have featured Miranda since the release of Hamilton in 2015. Children, adults, and Disney fans have all enjoyed Miranda's music and will for years to come. Miranda has more upcoming projects for fans to enjoy in the next few years including projects like the retelling of the classic Disney movie The Little Mermaid.

Thankfully, you don't have to travel to your nearest theater to watch the show anymore since being added to Disney+ in 2020!

Which Hamilton quote is your favorite? Comment below!

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