Fearful of being overshadowed by an expanding Republican slave empire in the west, some New England Federalists began to talk of secession from the union. Such plans formed part of the context for the...
Convinced that struggle was the crucible of character, Rockefeller faced a delicate task in raising his children. He wanted to accumulate wealth while inculcating in them the values of his threadbare...
But who would direct this mysterious bastion of money? Its ten million dollars in capital would be several times larger than the combined capital of all existing banks, eclipsing anything ever seen in...
As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.
1755, Knox decided to propagate the gospel and was sent
We know that he read a considerable amount of philosophy, including Bacon, Hobbes, Montaigne, and Cicero.
The government must degenerate either into an absolute and despotic monarchy or a tyrannical aristocracy.
The Ku Klux Klan Act. He had planned a California trip that spring, but canceled it in the belief that he couldn’t sidestep this historic moment. The strong new measure laid down criminal penalties fo...
Strong executives and endorsed single ministers for war, foreign affairs, finance, and the navy:
Religions.
Polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity,
Orders.
Memories of Valley Forge and Morristown would powerfully affect the future political agendas of both Washington and Hamilton, who had to grapple with the defects of a weak central government
Many Federalists emerged as strict constructionists and denied that the Constitution permitted the purchase. Beyond legal reservations, they worried that this new American territory would weaken Feder...
Justice, and Samuel, a plantation owner, also owned nearby houses.
It was England that shone as Hamilton’s true lodestar in public finance. Back in the 1690s, the British had set up the Bank of England, enacted an excise tax on spirits, and funded its public debt—tha...
It is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest.
If a white man kills a black, he cannot be tried for his life for the murder. . . . If a negro strikes a white man, he is punished with the loss of his hand and, if he should draw blood, with death.
Has seldom been without its evils. It is to this source we are to trace many of the fatal mistakes which have so deeply endangered the common cause, particularly that defect which will be the object o...
Greed can corrupt a state and that a public official who betrays his trust ought to feel the utmost rigor of public resentment and be detested as a traitor of the worst and most dangerous kind.