Editing a Federalist newspaper in Richmond, he revealed that Jefferson, while vice president, had subsidized him to malign Adams and Hamilton. When Jefferson denied this, Callender published documents...
Endorsing still another form of government activism, Hamilton claimed that nothing had assisted Britain’s industry more than its network of public roads and canals. He therefore touted internal improv...
England refused to acknowledge the traditional doctrine free ships make free goods—i.e., that neutral vessels had a right to carry all cargo save munitions and enter the ports of belligerent countries...
Even as a raw country boy, he allowed himself no oath stronger than Thunder and Lightning
Even later, as a private citizen, he said that his own scrupulousness had prevented him from being concerned in what is termed speculation.9 This made his blindness to Duer’s shameless machinations th...
FROM THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR, Abraham Lincoln recognized the pivotal role of Kentucky, a centrally located buffer state between North and South. I hope to have God on my side, he admonished colleagues...
Far from being a pro-British lackey, much less a high-level spy, Hamilton stubbornly defended U.S. interests at every turn. He was bargaining with Beckwith, not groveling. He insisted that the United...
Few First Ladies—and the name wasn’t yet commonly used—have so reveled in the White House or developed such a proprietary feeling about it. Eight happy years I spent there—so happy! Julia would remini...
Few figures in American History have aroused such visceral love or loathing as Alexander Hamilton.
Finally, he flung his hat on the ground in disgust and fumed, Are these the men with whom I am to defend America?
Fisher Ames, always a shrewd observer of the scene, mused that a spirit of faction . . . must soon come to a crisis. He foresaw that congressional Republicans would discard their comparatively decorou...
For Hamilton the American Revolution was a practical workshop of economic and political theory, providing critical object lessons and cautionary tales that charted the course for his career.
For all their fratricidal warfare, the Federalists ran a surprisingly close race for the presidency. Jefferson and Burr tied with seventy-three electoral votes apiece, while Adams and Pinckney trailed...
For anyone studying Hamilton’s pay book, it would come as no surprise that he would someday emerge as a first-rate constitutional scholar, an unsurpassed treasury secretary, and the protagonist of the...
For five weeks in November and December 1798, he conferred in Philadelphia with Washington, who made his first resplendent return to the capital in twenty months, appearing in uniform on horseback. Ch...
For the remainder of the gubernatorial campaign, Hamilton issued open letters to the electorate, and at Clinton campaign rallies his essays were hurled under the table as marks of contempt. In shaping...
For you know me well enough, my good Sir, to be persuaded that I am not guilty of affectation when I tell you it is my great and sole desire to live and die, in peace and retirement, on my own farm.
Four Millions of people heretofore declared by the highest tribunal in the land, not citizens of the United States, nor eligible to become so, voters in every part of the land, the right not to be abr...
Franklin wanted a unicameral legislature and an executive council in lieu of a president. He also opposed a presidential veto on legislation, thinking it would lead to executive corruption till it end...
From the First Philippic of Demosthenes, he plucked a passage that summed up his conception of a leader as someone who would not pander to popular whims. As a general marches at the head of his troops...
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