Collaboration, Disagreement, and Democracy Theme Analysis

BURR: Talk less.

HAMILTON: What?

BURR: Smile more.

HAMILTON: Ha.

BURR: Don’t let them know what you’re against or what you’re for.

HAMILTON: You can’t be serious.

BURR: You wanna get ahead?

HAMILTON: Yes.

BURR: Fools who run their mouths oft wind up dead.

LAURENS: Raise a glass to the four of us.

HAMILTON, LAURENS, MULLIGAN, LAFAYETTE: Tomorrow there’ll be more of us.

HAMILTON, LAURENS: Telling the story of tonight.

MULLIGAN, LAFAYETTE: Let’s have another round tonight.

KING GEORGE: You say
The price of my love’s not a price that you’re willing to pay.
You cry
In your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by.
Why so sad?
Remember we made an arrangement when you went away.
Now you’re making me mad.
Remember, despite our estrangement, I’m your man.

WASHINGTON: It’s alright, you wanna fight, you’ve got a hunger.
I was just like you when I was younger.
Head full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr?

HAMILTON: Yes.

WASHINGTON: Dyin’ is easy, young man.
Living is harder.

HAMILTON: I’ve been livin’ without a family since I was a child.
My father left, my mother died, I grew up buckwild.
But I’ll never forget my mother’s face, that was real
And long as I’m alive, Eliza, swear to God, you’ll never feel so…

WOMEN: Helpless

ELIZA: I do I do I do I dooo!

ANGELICA: To the groom!
To the bride!
From your sister.
Who is always by your side.
To your union.
And the hope you provide.
May you always
Be satisfied.
And I know
She’ll be happy as his bride.
And I know
He will never be satisfied.
I will never be satisfied.

BURR: Death doesn’t discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints,
It takes, and it takes, and it takes
And we keep living anyway.
We rise and we fall
And we break,
And we make our mistakes.
And if there’s a reason I’m still alive
When ev’ryone who loves me has died
I’m willing to wait for it.
I’m willing to wait for it.

WASHINGTON: Let me tell you what I wish I’d known
When I was young and dreamed of glory.
You have no control

WASHINGTON, COMPANY: Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.

LAFAYETTE: Monsieur Hamilton.

HAMILTON: Monsieur Lafayette.

LAFAYETTE: In command where you belong.

HAMILTON: How you say, no sweat.
We’re finally on the field. We’ve had quite a run.

LAFAYETTE: Immigrants.

HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE: We get the job done.

BURR: My father wasn’t around

HAMILTON: I swear that

BURR, HAMILTON: I’ll be around for you.

HAMILTON: I’ll do whatever it takes.

BURR: I’ll make a million mistakes.

BURR, HAMILTON: I’ll make the world safe and sound for you…
Will come of age with our young nation
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….
Someday, someday

BURR: The Constitution’s a mess.

HAMILTON: So it needs amendments.

BURR: It’s full of contradictions.

HAMILTON: So is independence.
We have to start somewhere.

BURR: No. No way.

HAMILTON: You’re making a mistake.

BURR: Goodnight.

HAMILTON: Hey.
What are you waiting for?
What do you stall for?

BURR: What?

HAMILTON: We won the war.
What was it all for?
Do you support the Constitution?

BURR: Of course.

HAMILTON: Then defend it.

BURR: And what if you’re backing the wrong horse?

HAMILTON: Thomas. That was a real nice declaration.
Welcome to the present. We’re running a real nation.
Would you like to join us, or stay mellow,
Doin’ whatever the hell it is you do in Monticello?
If we assume the debts, the Union gets a new line of credit, a financial diuretic.
How do you not get it? If we’re aggressive and competitive
The Union gets a boost. You’d rather give it a sedative?
A civics lesson from a slaver. Hey neighbor.
Your debts are paid cuz you don’t pay for labor.
“We plant seeds in the ground. We create.” Yeah, keep ranting.
We know who’s really doing the planting.

HAMILTON, JEFFERSON, MADISON, WASHINGTON: What do you want, Burr?
What do you want, Burr?
If you stand for nothing,
Burr, what do you fall for?

BURR: I
Wanna be in
The room where it happens.
The room where it happens.
I
Wanna be in
The room where it happens.
The room where it happens.

HAMILTON: Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I have committed many errors. I shall also carry with me

HAMILTON, WASHINGTON: The hope that my country will view them with indulgence
And that after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as I myself must soon be.

ANGELICA: They are standing in the garden,
Alexander by Eliza’s side.
She takes his hand […]

ELIZA: It’s quiet uptown.

Hamilton shatters.

COMPANY: Forgiveness. Can you imagine?
Forgiveness. Can you imagine?
If you see him in the streets, walking by her side, talking by her side, have pity.
They are going through the unimaginable.

HAMILTON: I have never agreed with Jefferson once.
We have fought on like seventy-five diff’rent fronts!
But when all is said and all is done.
Jefferson has beliefs. Burr has none.

HAMILTON: If I throw away my shot, is this how you remember me?
What if this bullet is my legacy?
Legacy. What is a legacy?
It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.
I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me.
America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me.
You let me make a difference.
A place where even orphan immigrants can leave their fingerprints and rise up.
I’m running out of time, I’m running and my time’s up. Wise up. Eyes up.