The four to six young aides usually slept in one room, often two to a bed, then worked long days in a single room with chairs crowded around small wooden tables. Washington typically kept a small offi...
The government would have to track them down, ascertain their sale prices, then trace all intermediate investors who had held the debt before it was bought by the current owners—an administrative nigh...
The influence of the doctrine of states’ rights, especially in the version promulgated by Jefferson, reverberated right up to the Civil War and beyond. At the close of that war, James Garfield of Ohio...
The issue of press freedom was all the more important because the spirit of faction, that mortal poison to our land, had spread through America. He worried that a certain unnamed party might impose de...
The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained,
The lawmakers were drawn to the courtroom by more than curiosity: they had under consideration a bill that would allow truth as a defense in libel trials.
The man born without honor placed a premium on maintaining his.
The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves and to suffice for our own happiness.
The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves and to suffice for our own happiness.7
The next incendiary issue was that some debt was owed by the thirteen states, some by the federal government. Hamilton decided to consolidate all the debt into a single form: federal debt.
The painting also pinpointed an important quirk of Washington’s face: the lazy right eye that slid off into the corner while the left eye stared straight ahead. To prepare for the equestrian
The people had registered their dismay with a long litany of unpopular Federalist actions: the Jay Treaty, the Alien and Sedition Acts, the truculent policy toward France, the vast army being formed u...
The period of John Adams’s presidency declined into a time of political savagery with few parallels in American history, a season of paranoia in which the two parties surrendered all trust in each oth...
The president was running out of room to maneuver as the country backed away from further federal interference in the South. The outcry over Louisiana began to ring down the final curtain on Reconstru...
The prolific Hamilton was now writing pseudonymous commentaries on his own pseudonymous essays.
The remedy is for people to stop watching the ticker, listening to the radio, drinking bootleg gin, and dancing to jazz . . . and return to the old economics and prosperity based upon saving and worki...
The self-control was something achieved, not inherited, and often masked combustible emotions that could explode in fury.
The task of government was not to stop selfish striving—a hopeless task—but to harness it for the public good. In starting to outline the contours of his own vision of government, Hamilton was spurred...
The task of government was not to stop selfish striving—a hopeless task—but to harness it for the public good.
The terror tactics worked: on Election Day in November, only two Republicans dared to vote in all of Yazoo County, only one in Tallahatchie County. In Louisiana, whites were set to
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