He downplayed the significance of technical knowledge in business. I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it. A young man who wants to succeed in business does not require chem...
He had a great general’s ability to focus on his goals and brush aside obstacles as petty distractions. You can abuse me, you can strike me, Rockefeller said, so long as you let me have my own way.
He recoiled at the cowardice and selfishness he saw rampant in the New York legislature. The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people, he told Morris. In such a governm...
How this seemingly dull, phlegmatic man, in a stupendous act of nation building, presided over the victorious Continental Army and forged the office of the presidency is a mystery to most Americans. S...
I am aware that a man of real merit is never seen in so favourable a light as seen through the medium of adversity,
I have stopped the damned rascal’s lying tongue at any rate, he
I shall conclude [by] saying I wish there was a war. Alex. Hamilton.
In Julia’s view, the Dent slaves were all very happy. At least they were in mamma’s time, though the young ones became somewhat demoralized about the beginning of the Rebellion, when all the comforts...
In defending his plan, Hamilton did not speak just in arid technical terms. He talked of justice, equity, patriotism, and national honor. His funding system was premised upon a simple concept: that th...
In other words, Julia still believed in the beneficial effects of tobacco long after her husband had likely died from it. Even grimacing with pain, Grant tracked presidential politics intently.
In public exigencies, there is hardly anything more prejudicial than excessive caution, timidity and dilatoriness, as there is nothing more beneficial than vigour, enterprise and expedition.
In the end, nobody would do more than Alexander Hamilton to infuse life into this parchment and make it the working mandate of the American government.
In theory, the convention had a mandate only to revise the Articles of Confederation. Any delegates who took this circumscribed mission at face value were soon rudely disabused. On May 30, Edmund Rand...
In this hierarchical world, skittish planters lived in constant dread of slave revolts and fortified their garrison state to avert them. Even when he left for America, Hamilton carried a heavy dread o...
In times of such commotion as the present, while the passions of men are worked up to an uncommon pitch, there is great danger of fatal extremes. The same state of the passions which fits the multitud...
In urging the court to invalidate the Trespass Act, Hamilton expounded the all-important doctrine of judicial review—the notion that high courts had a right to scrutinize laws and if necessary declare...
In writing an intemperate indictment of John Adams, Hamilton committed a form of political suicide that blighted the rest of his career. As shown with The Reynolds Pamphlet, he had a genius for the se...
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me de...
It also reflected a profound political logic. Hamilton knew that bondholders would feel a stake in preserving any government that owed them money. If the federal government, not the states, was owed t...
It speaks volumes about the prevalent detestation of banks that Hamilton dwelled so long on combating myths against them. For example, he had to contest that banks would invariably engender speculativ...
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