Rather than make peace with John Adams, he was ready, if necessary, to blow up the Federalist party and let Jefferson become president. The
Reared with Methodist modesty, he could never admit nakedly to the true depth of his ambition. In this way, he was strictly Hannah Grant’s son, not Jesse’s. Ethical and honorable, he wanted to receive...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if having been freed from the slaveholder’s lash, he is to be subject to the slaveh...
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...
Washingtongrew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. I can bear to hearof imputed or real errors, he once wrote. The man who wishes to stand well in theopinion of others must do...
Justice, and Samuel, a plantation owner, also owned nearby houses.
Whatever Hoar’s injury, he departed in gentlemanly fashion, sending Grant a gracious farewell note. In private, however, he broadcast his anger and wished the government might be destroyed.
What mattered was that people trusted the government to make good on repayment: In nothing are appearances of greater moment than in whatever regards credit. Opinion is the soul of it and this is affe...
Washington was then unanimously elected president of the convention.
Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully.
Love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds, which would prompt a man to plan and undertake extensive and arduous enterprises for the public benefit. 54 Ambition was reckless if inspired by...
Manner.
Washington appointed Hamilton, George Wythe, and Charles Pinckney to a small committee that drew up rules and procedures for the convention.
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...
To believe America able to withstand England is a dreadful infatuation.
Have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.
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