Currency, so he wouldn’t be seen as questioning American credit, but by the summer of 1779 he could no longer afford these massive losses and discontinued the practice. The previous winter Washington...
Demagogue.
Democracy,
D
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...
Government.
Have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.
If Clinton was taken prisoner it would be our misfortune, since the British government could not find another commander so incompetent to send in his place.
In April, the president-elect had stopped at Morris’s opulent residence. The treasury, Morris, will of course be your berth, Washington confided. After your invaluable services as financier of the Rev...
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.
Justice, and Samuel, a plantation owner, also owned nearby houses.
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.
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...
Pernicious;
Raiders, the United States wanted Great Britain to foot the bill for the entire war cost after Gettysburg, some $2 billion, the logic being that after Gettysburg, the Confederacy had abandoned offensi...
Rude and petulant, his frank manner a cloak for infinite calculation. Clinton
Say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, ‘Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attainin...
Something akin to chief of staff, he rode with the general in combat, cantered off on diplomatic missions, dealt with bullheaded generals, sorted through intelligence, interrogated deserters, and nego...
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