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15 Hamilton Quotes Every College Freshman Should Know

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Gettysburg chapter.

 

  1. “Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came, and the world is gonna know your name.”  

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  2. “I am not throwing away my shot!”  

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  3. “There’s a million things I haven’t done, but just you wait…”  

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  4. “Rise up.”  

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  5. “I’m patiently waitin’, i’m passionately smashin’ every expectation.  Every action’s an act of creation!”

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  6. “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.”

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  7. “I am the one thing in life I can control”  

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  8. “The plan is to fan this spark into a flame”  

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  9. “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story…?”

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  10. “Look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now”

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  11. “I’ve never been satisfied”

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  12. “I am inimitable, I am an original.”  

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  13. “If you stand for nothing–what’ll you fall for?”

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  14. “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.”

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  15. “When you knock me down I get the f*ck back up again.”

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Katherine Cramer is an Economics and Public Policy double major at Gettysburg College. She is the Secretary for the Class of 2020 as well as the senator for her dorm hall and the Student Senate representative for Her Campus at Gettysburg and the pre law club. On top of her academics and extracurriculars, she enjoys playing violin in the Sunderman Conservatory Orchestra on campus.
Juliette Sebock, Founder: Jules founded the Gettysburg College chapter of Her Campus in Fall 2015 and served as Campus Correspondent until graduating in Spring 2018. Juliette graduated from Gettysburg College in 2018 with an English major and History/Civil War Era Studies/Public History triple minors. In addition to HC, she was a member of the Spring 2017 class of Advanced Studies in England and of various organizations including Eta Sigma Phi, Dance Ensemble, and Poetry Circle. She has published a poetry chapbook titled Mistakes Were Made, available on Amazon and Goodreads, and she has poems forthcoming in several literary magazines. She is also the editor-in-chief of Nightingale & Sparrow Magazine and runs the lifestyle blog, For the Sake of Good Taste. For more information, visit https://juliettesebock.com.