The extraordinary outpouring of bipartisan concern blotted out the scandals of Grant’s presidency and restored him to his rightful niche in the American pantheon. Hundreds of sympathetic messages pile...
The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
The intimacy of this group of nationalists allowed the talks to range far beyond commercial disputes to a richer, more trenchant critique of the crumbling Articles of Confederation.
The low point of his presidency came in June and July 1798. While Adams wrestled with Hamilton over the ranking of Washington’s major generals, Congress enacted four infamous laws designed to muzzle d...
The most damning and hypocritical critiques of his allegedly aristocratic economic system emanated from the most aristocratic southern slaveholders, who deflected attention from their own nefarious de...
The rancor ushered in a golden age of literary assassination in American politics. No
They profess to aim only at a reform of the constitution and of certain abuses in the public administration, but an abolition of debts public and private and a new division of property are strongly su...
This falling-out was to be more than personal, for the rift between Hamilton and Madison precipitated the start of the two-party system in America. The funding debate shattered the short-lived politic...
This falling-out was to be more than personal, for the rift between Hamilton and Madison precipitated the start of the two-party system in America.
This was Alexander Hamilton’s recurring nightmare: an electoral deal struck between Virginia and New York Republicans.
Tis with governments as with individuals, first impressions and early habits give a lasting bias to the temper and character.
To Jefferson we owe the self-congratulatory language of Fourth of July oratory, the evangelical conviction that America serves as a beacon to all humanity. Jefferson told John Dickinson, Our revolutio...
To believe America able to withstand England is a dreadful infatuation.
To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering as a farmer: I regard every load of wood taken, when the services of both...
To those who feared oppressive taxes, Hamilton made an argument that anticipated supply-side economics of the late twentieth century, saying that officials can have no temptation to abuse this power,...
To understand Hamiliton’s productivity, it is important to note that virtually all of his important work was journalism, prompted by topical issues and written in the midst of controversy.
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...
Washington appointed Hamilton, George Wythe, and Charles Pinckney to a small committee that drew up rules and procedures for the convention.
Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully.
Washington was then unanimously elected president of the convention.
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