The Politics of Pounding

Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary War hero, one of the drafters of the U.S. Contstitution, one of the authors of The Federalist Papers, first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, trusted advisor to President George Washington, Federalist, and constant target of Jeffersonian Republicans' attacks, wrote:

"[N]o character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false."

It was a lesson hard-learned by Secretary Hamilton, and one we would do well to consider today.