Paranoid thinking seems to be a legacy of all revolutions, with purists searching for signs of heresy, and the American experience was no exception.
And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors uncons...
(regarding Charles Lee) This eccentric and notably slovenly man was always trailed by his beloved dogs. "When I can be convinced that men are as worthy objects as dogs", he once explained, "I shall tr...
Hamilton dreaded parties as the most fatal disease of popular governments and hoped America could dispense with such groups.7 James Kent later wrote, Hamilton said in The Federalist, in his speeches,...
Day confirms me in the intention of renouncing public life and devoting myself wholly to you. Let others waste their time and their tranquillity in a vain pursuit of power and glory. Be it my object t...
It would have been better never to have made a sacrifice of blood and treasure to save the Union than to have the democratic party come in power now and sacrifice by the ballot what the bayonet seemed...
In number 65, Hamilton visualized, with exceptional
I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them...
If he had wanted to impose a monarchy upon America, Hamilton said, he would follow the classic path of a populist demagogue: I would mount the hobbyhorse of popularity, I would cry out usurpation, dan...
In yet another political fracas, Coleman received a caning that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
It is unclear how closely Grant followed current affairs as the national debate over slavery broadened and intensified. Through the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state while ot...
The mystery of why Callender and his cronies disclosed the Reynolds scandal that summer is a tantalizing one. Callender mentioned the recall of James Monroe, but there were other reasons as well. The...
April 1776, Benjamin Franklin expressed pleasure with the ease and affability with which we were treated and the lively behaviour of the young ladies. 9
George Washington possessed the gift of inspired simplicity, a clarity and purity of vision that never failed him. Whatever petty partisan disputes swirled around him, he kept his eyes fixed on the tr...
Hamilton, the human word machine,
Burr, His manner was patronizing. . . . As he revealed himself to my moral sense, I saw he was destitute of any fixed principles.
Hamilton wanted to restrain abusive majorities and minorities.
From later descriptions, however, we know that [Alexander Hamilton] stood about five foot seven and had a fair complexion, auburn hair, rosy cheeks, and a wide, well-carved mouth. His nose, with its f...
The proposed Senate was especially loathsome to Clintonians, who feared it would be an aristocratic conclave. They introduced an amendment allowing state legislatures to recall their senators. This id...
In 1807, Burr was arrested for treason and for trying to incite a war against Spain. He was acquitted by Chief Justice John Marshall, who applied a strict definition of treason. The acquittal only sha...
Showing 41 to 60 of 995 results