The fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.54
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...
We know that he read a considerable amount of philosophy, including Bacon, Hobbes, Montaigne, and Cicero.
A sinking fund is a repository, set up apart from the general budget, for revenues to pay off debt.) It would sequester revenues from the sudden whims of grasping politicians who might want to raid th...
1690, the first capital, Jamestown, was swallowed whole by the sea during an
55 This thirty-five-page essay had been written in two or three weeks by Hamilton, as he entered the fray with all the grandiloquence and learning at his disposal. He showed himself proficient at eleg...
80–82 Jane Street. Taken to a large, second-floor bedroom, Alexander Hamilton was never to emerge from the house.
A central tenet of the American Revolution had been that a corrupt British ministry had suborned Parliament through patronage and pensions and used the resulting excessive influence to tax the colonis...
A master legislative tactician, Madison was now recognized as the first opposition leader in House history and had most of the south lined up solidly behind him.
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will...
A southerner by choice, Akerman found it sobering to verify the depth of Klan penetration in the region, which revealed a perversion of moral sentiment among the Southern whites which bodes ill to tha...
Actually, Hamilton's exploding cannon may have killed as many as six of his men and wounded four or five others. Some critics blamed inadequate training for the mishap, but the general dissipation of...
Adams had spent most of his vice presidency exiled in the Senate, casting a record thirty-one tiebreaking votes. Of the number-two post, he said wearily but indelibly that it was the most insignifican...
Adams made baldly partisan selections for a judiciary already packed with Federalists. His appointment of the so-called midnight judges rubbed old Republican wounds.
After Hamilton and his family left Philadelphia in mid-February 1795, they rented lodgings in New York City for several days before proceeding to the Schuyler residence in Albany for a long-overdue re...
After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton shut off some compartment of his emotions and never reopened it.
Ah, this is the constitution, he said. Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happines...
Alexander Hamilton may have been musing upon his mother's marriage to Lavien when he later observed, 'Tis a very good thing when their stars unite two people who are fit for each other, who have souls...
Alexander McDougall, Nathanael Greene, Lord Stirling, and Washington
America. During the war, the New York legislature had passed a series of laws that stripped Tories of their properties and privileges. The 1779 Confiscation Act provided for the seizure of Tory estate...
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