I'm going to show you how great I am.

This is a good fellow.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.

Alexander Hamilton was the most brilliant American statesman who ever lived,

possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time.

Hello and welcome to How to Take Over the World.

This is Ben Wilson, and that was a quote from the American president, Theodore Roosevelt.

Today we are obviously talking about Alexander Hamilton. I'm doing a series on the American founders, Theodore Roosevelt. Today we are obviously talking about Alexander Hamilton.

I'm doing a series on the American founders, and I am convinced that there are only three founding

fathers of the United States who were truly indispensable. There are many who made extremely

valuable contributions, but only three without whom I think the revolution would have failed.

And those three are George Washington,

Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin. I don't mean to downplay the contributions of men like

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Jay, Benjamin Rush, John Adams. I could go on. There were many

great men in that generation. There were giants on the earth in those days, to paraphrase the Bible.

But only those three were genuinely indispensable, I think. And in those days, to paraphrase the Bible, but only those three were

genuinely indispensable, I think. And of those three, I agree with Teddy Roosevelt that Alexander

Hamilton was the greatest. I've been really looking forward to this episode, and one of the reasons

is the musical Hamilton. I'm really glad that the musical has popularized the character of Alexander

Hamilton,

but a quibble I have with it is that I think perhaps it doesn't convey the true greatness

of the man.

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