Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison. They were what Pelatiah Webster observed was so necessary for the new country: "grave, wise and faithful men." Madison provided the architecture for the republic, Hamilton its masonry, and Jefferson its soul and poetry. And now, in the heady days of 1789 and 1790, with Washington as president and the three working together—none of them believed in political parties, which they feared would lead to "rage," "dissolution," and eventual "ruin" of the republic—it seemed that anything and everything was possible.
-Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World: 1788-1800
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