We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.
Hamilton wanted to lead the electorate and provide expert opinion instead of consulting popular opinion. He took tough, uncompromising stands and gloried in abstruse ideas in a political culture that...
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Its chief draftsman, Morris shrank the original twenty-three articles to seven and wrote the great preamble with its ringing opening, We the People of the United States. Paying tribute to Morris’s cra...
There are some people whom the Lord Almighty cannot save, he later said wearily of the Oil Creek refiners. They don’t want to be saved. They want to go on and serve the devil and keep on in their wick...
May 12, 1784, the state legislature passed a law depriving most Loyalists of the vote for the next two years.
Hamilton, using the pen name Civis in a newspaper piece of February 23, 1791, penned the following telling sarcasm to Madison and Jefferson: As to the negroes, you must be tender upon that subject. . ...
Washington gave orders to construct six frigates—the birth of the U.S. Navy—and Hamilton negotiated contracts for many naval components: cannon, shot and shells, iron ballast, sailcloth, live oak and...
Even to the renowned Washington.
Proper handling of government debt would permit America to borrow at affordable interest rates and would also act as a tonic to the economy. Used as loan collateral, government bonds could function as...
Extracts from a six-volume set of Plutarch’s Lives. Thereafter, Hamilton always interpreted politics as an epic tale from Plutarch of lust and greed and people plotting for power. Since his political...
Hamilton warned that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of...
A striking example of political gaucheness, Adams then nominated Washington to command the new army before he had a chance to register an opinion. On July 3, the Senate hastily approved the choice.
The 1800 triumph of Republicanism also meant the ascendancy of the slaveholding south. Three Virginia slaveholders—Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe—were to control the White House for the next twenty-fo...
To deal with the legions of dead, Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs proposed the creation of a national military cemetery, surrounding the former Lee mansion at Arlington, and Stanton approved th...
If a charge was made often enough, people assumed in the end that a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent.
Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed and A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
So it may be said, with undoubted truth, that the whiskey drinkers made Mr. Jefferson the President of the United States.48
He worried that a separate senate, elected solely by propertied voters, will degenerate into a body purely aristocratical.
The funeral was a vast, elaborate affair, befitting a monarch or head of state, in marked contrast to the essential simplicity of the man honored. The grandeur emphasized the central place that Grant...
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