To which Robert Morris replied:—
“He knows everything, sir! To a mind like his, nothing comes amiss.”
Washington then appointed Hamilton to be Secretary of the Treasury.
Hamilton took up his duties. The Country and the States were in debt. He organized the finances of our young and new Nation, putting them upon a sound basis; he provided funds with which to pay the National debt, so that the United States of America “might command the respect of the Nations of the World.”
It was Alexander Hamilton who laid the foundations of the financial system of our Republic.
JANUARY 17
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
THE AMERICAN SOCRATES
We have reason to be thankful he was so long spared, that the most useful life should be the longest, also that it was protracted so far beyond the ordinary span allotted to man, as to avail us of his wisdom in the establishment of our own Freedom.
Thomas Jefferson