Lafayette was a splendid man...with a marvelous, self-depreciating sense of humor. He was, for example, balding noticeably when he reached an Indian outpost...and he calmed his wife's anxieties by not...
History informs us that the passage of dethroned monarchs is short from prison to the grave.18
Elected fifth president of the United States, Monroe transformed a fragile little nation - a savage wilderness, as Edmund Burke put it - into a glorious empire. Although George Washington had won the...
By March 1766, colonist boycotts had proved so costly to British merchants that Parliament repealed the stamp tax without having collected a single penny.
Now he recognized that protection of national interests was the raison d’être of all governments, whether born of revolution or not. Expansion of individual liberties had simply been a by-product of t...
Monroe's presidency made poor men rich, turned political allies into friends, and united a divided people as no president had done since Washington.
He supported Jefferson’s proposed Land Ordinance of 1784,22 ceding Virginia’s western territory to Congress for division into fourteen future states in which there shall be neither slavery nor involun...
At the end of June 1783, Monroe's first year of government service came to an end. Although he had accomplished nothing, he had done no less than his colleagues - which is exactly what Virginia plante...
He believed the future of the nation was at stake, and he returned day after day to fight his war against the slaveocracy. And Quincy voters sent him back to Congress again and again. Louisa fretted a...
And to Virginia governor Edmund Randolph, who also favored a bill of rights, he explained, The human race is too apt to rush from one extreme to another.… For now, the cry is power; give Congress powe...
Monroe also saved Tom Paine, whose revolutionary fervor had inspired him to become a French citizen and win a seat in the Convention. When Paine voted against executing King Louis XVI, however, Robesp...
He was curious, courteous, open - never arrogant or condescending - and generous to a fault. Abigail Adams later noted his agreeable affability, unassuming manner, and polite attentions to all orders...
Contrary to the writings of some historians, Monroe's proclamation was entirely his own creation-not Adam's. The assertion that Adams authored the Monroe Doctrine is not only untrue, it borders on the...
Monroe
Napoléon Bonaparte—proclaimed an end to private property. The earth belongs to no one; its fruits belong to every one, declared François Noël Babeuf. There is but one sun, one air for all to breath. L...
Obligations to the United States, ladies and gentlemen, far surpass the services I was able to render. These date back to the time when I had the good fortune to be adopted by the United States as one...
Everyone that is not a noble, he lamented, is a slave.
Daniel Shays, a farmer struggling to keep his property, convinced neighbors that Boston legislators were colluding with judges and lawyers to raise property taxes and foreclose when farmers found it i...
America is on the point of bursting into flames,
Fathers—dressed
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