“ The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years. Walter A. McDougall
“ America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing. Walter A. McDougall
“ Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal City overrun by frontiersmen who car… Walter A. McDougall
