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The Most Timless and Impactful Lines from 𝘏𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘰𝘯: A Thread
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the lyrics to Hamilton over 7 years, and the show premiered on Broadway in January 2015. Now, more than 5 years later, those lyrics are still just as impactful and resounding.
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the lyrics to Hamilton over 7 years, and the show premiered on Broadway in January 2015. Now, more than 5 years later, those lyrics are still just as impactful and resounding.
In this thread I have compiled the lyrics that continue to carry the most impact into the political discourse of 2020. My list is not all-inclusive, so if you don’t see a line that resonated personally with you, please add it. Let’s join together to share and celebrate this work.
- There’s a million things I haven’t done, but just you wait... just you wait.
- I’m just like my country, I’m young scrappy and hungry, and I am not throwing away my shot.
- I may not live to see our glory, but I will gladly join the fight, and when our children tell our story, they’ll tell the story of tonight. Let’s have another round tonight.
- Raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you. Raise a glass to the four of us, tomorrow there will be more of us; telling the story of tonight.
- Heed not the rabble who scream ‘Revolution’, they have not your interest at heart. Chaos and bloodshed are not a solution, don’t let them lead you astray. This Congress does not speak for me, you’re playing a dangerous game.
- How you all unravel at the sound of screams, but the revolution’s coming, the have-nots are going to win this. It’s hard to listen to you with a straight face: chaos and bloodshed already haunt us, honestly you shouldn’t even talk.
Look at the cost and all that we’ve lost and you talk about Congress.
- And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love.
- And when push comes to shove, I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love.
- Love doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes. We keep lovin’ anyway, we laugh and we cry and we break and we make our mistakes. But if there’s a reason I’m by her side when so many have tried, then I’m willing to wait for it.
- Life doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes. We keep livin’ anyway, we rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes. But if there’s a reason I’m still alive when so many have died, them I’m willing to wait for it.
- I am the one thing in life I can control, I am inimitable, I am an original. I am not falling behind or running late. I am not standing still, I am lying in wait.
- I made every mistake, felt the shame rise in me, and even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me. 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.
- I know that we can win, I know that greatness lies in you, but remember from here on in, history has its eyes on you.
- Immigrants, we get the job done.
- When you knock me down, I get the fuck back up again.
- The world turned upside down.
- Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution, entitled The Federalist Papers. The plan was to write a total of twenty five essays, the work divided evenly among the three men.
In the end, they wrote eighty five essays in the span of six months. John Jay got sick after writing five, James Madison wrote twenty nine. HAMILTON WROTE THE OTHER FIFTY ONE!
- “We plant seeds in the ground, we create!” Yeah, keep ranting, we know who’s really doing the planting.
- No one knows how the parties get to yes, the pieces that are sacrificed to every game of chess. We just assume that it happens, but no one else is in the room where it happens.
- Oh my God, in God we trust, but we never really know what got discussed. Click, Boom, then it happened, and no one else is in the room where it happened.
- God help and forgive me, I wanna build something that’s going to outlive me.
