Aaron Burr, n.All

Aaron Burr is a conspirator whose conspiracy had been one of the most flagitious of which history will ever furnish an example . . .

Aaron Burr is a crooked gun, a perverted machine, whose aim or shot you could never be sure of.

Aaron Burr is, in every sense, a profligate. He is a voluptuary in the extreme, with uncommon habits of expense: as unprincipled and dangerous a man as any country can boast.

Aaron Burr is a man who will never choose to lean on good men, because he knows that they will never support his bad projects. Instead, he will endeavor to disorganize both parties.

Aaron Burr is an embryo Caesar, secretly turning liberty into ridicule.

Aaron Burr is a man with no principles, public or private. As a politician, his sole spring of action is an inordinate ambition.