The greatness of Hamilton cannot be dismissed. However, he was not in the least a moralitest or an idealist like many other of America's founding fathers. Hamilton was a strict realist, who emphasized on realpolitik more anything else. His inspiration in molding the United States came from the fiscal-military state of Britain. He hoped to make the U.S. a power nation at par with those in Europe and sought to do so by the same means they did.