There is no virtue [in] America. That commerce which preside[d over] the birth and education of these states has [fitted] their inhabitants for the chain and . . . the only condition they sincerely de...
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Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation,
Cannot doubt, from the evidence that I possess[,] that the National Gazette was instituted by him [Jefferson] for political purposes and that one leading object of it has been to render me and all the...
One lady remembered seeing them together that summer turn and laugh and play with a monkey that was climbing in a neighbor’s yard.
Once Morris had finished his speech, the casket was transferred to a grave site in the Trinity churchyard, not far from where Hamilton had studied and lived, practiced law and served his country.
Simon Wolf wrote during Woodrow Wilson’s tenure, President Grant did more on behalf of American citizens of Jewish faith at home and abroad than all the Presidents of the United States prior thereto o...
Emissary to England to continue talks about the matters discussed. On October 7, Washington discussed such an appointment with Hamilton and Jay and accepted Hamilton’s suggestion that Gouverneur Morri...
For he had the attorney’s ability to make the best case for an imperfect client. He was not alone in making this transition: all the delegates at Philadelphia had adopted the final document in a spiri...
Right before his inauguration, he received a Quaker delegation and asked them to nominate Indian agents from their members. If you can make Quakers out of the Indians, it will take the fight out of th...
Returning to his Manhattan town house on Christmas Eve, Grant, sixty-one, pivoted to hand the driver a holiday tip when he slipped on the icy pavement and crashed to the ground, tearing a thigh muscle...
One scandalized British soldier complained that the American riflemen conceal themselves behind trees etc. till an opportunity presents itself of taking a shot at our advance sentries, which done, the...
Once Hamilton was initiated into the cause of American liberty, his life acquired an even more headlong pace that never slackened.
Although scheduled to start in early March, the House and Senate took more than a month to muster quorums. In a significant piece of symbolism, the House met on the ground floor of Federal Hall and pr...
One thing that hasn’t aroused dispute is the exemplary nature of Washington’s religious tolerance. He shuddered at the notion of exploiting religion for partisan purposes or showing favoritism for cer...
Other reasons account for Hamilton’s failure to snatch the prize. Though blessed with a great executive mind and a consummate policy maker, Hamilton could never master the smooth restraint of a mature...
The last analysis, the durable bond formed between Hamilton and Washington during the Revolution was based less on personal intimacy than on shared experiences of danger and despair and common hopes f...
Out of the blue, a veteran named Charles Wood, manager of a brush factory in upstate New York, sent Grant a $500 check and offered him a $1,000 interest-free loan for a year, renewable if necessary. G...
We know that he read a considerable amount of philosophy, including Bacon, Hobbes, Montaigne, and Cicero.
Probably the first book that Hamilton absorbed was Malachy Postlethwayt’s Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, a learned almanac of politics, economics, and geography that was crammed with arti...
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