Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.
The tax constituted the second largest source of federal revenues and was indispensable to Hamilton. If deprived of that crucial tax, he would have to raise tariffs, which would encourage more smuggli...
The further one digs into the Phocion essays, the more apparent it becomes that Hamilton was engaging in devious manipulation of the southern vote. He was trying to turn southern slaveholders against...
The author refers to Washington as Hamilton’s immaculate daddy,
Taciturnity.
Starters, it would be more efficient, since there would be one overarching scheme for settling debt instead of many small, competing schemes.
Respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a nation.
Laird
He elaborated the fashionable argument that the colonies owed their allegiance to the British king, not to Parliament. The point was critical, for if the colonies were linked only to the king, they co...
Equaled. If Jefferson provided the essential poetry of American political discourse, Hamilton established the prose of American statecraft.
Duration by Britain’s treacherous support for the Confederacy.43 Not simply wanting compensation for destroyed American vessels, he added a still more explosive demand: that Britain pay a staggering $...
Chaste and tender (I am an enthusiast in my notions of fidelity and fondness),
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We have left behind the rosy agrarian rhetoric and slaveholding reality of Jeffersonian democracy and reside in the bustling world of trade, industry, stock markets, and banks that Hamilton envisioned...
Washington possessed the outstanding judgment, sterling character, and clear sense of purpose needed to guide his sometimes wayward protégé; he saw that the volatile Hamilton needed a steadying hand.
The truth is I am an unlucky honest man that speaks my sentiments to all and with emphasis.
The power of the new mass media made Grant’s illness a national spectacle, with his doctors offering twice-daily updates on his condition.
The Federalists were allied with powerful banking and merchant interests in New England and on the Atlantic seaboard and were disproportionately Congregationalists and Episcopalians.
Soon after being sworn in as president, John Adams learned that the Directory, the five-member council now ruling France, had expelled the new American minister, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and promu...
Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel.