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| 7f2ffe1 | in April, the president-elect had stopped at Morris's opulent residence. "The treasury, Morris, will of course be your berth," Washington confided. "After your invaluable services as financier of the Revolution, no one can pretend to contest the office of the secretary of the treasury with you." | Ron Chernow | ||
| f693ba8 | We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 989d171 | Almost two thousand New Yorkers died, and a fresh potter's field was consecrated in what is now Greenwich Village. | Ron Chernow | ||
| c8d45eb | Citing private reasons--Morris was already lurching down a long, slippery path that led to bankruptcy and debtors' prison--Morris politely declined the offer. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7a8d92c | India will be another Africa, if left to itself. | Anbumani Ramadoss | ||
| ef67dbd | everything that Hamilton planned to create to transform America into a powerful, modern nation-state--a central bank, a funded debt, a mint, a customs service, manufacturing subsidies, and so on--was to strike critics as a slavish imitation of the British model. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 4009918 | Then, on Friday, September 11, 1789, thirty-four-year-old Alexander Hamilton was officially nominated for the job. The appointment was confirmed by the Senate the same day. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 290b7f6 | Section 377 of IPC, which criminalizes men who have sex with men, must go. | Anbumani Ramadoss | ||
| cf832ca | He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding. | Ron Chernow | ||
| d83389b | The wisdom of our ancestors. | Ancestors | ||
| f2c5a16 | currency, so he wouldn't be seen as questioning American credit, but by the summer of 1779 he could no longer afford these massive losses and discontinued the practice. The previous winter Washington had been sufficiently confident of his troops to risk a six-week stay in Philadelphia, but he now felt compelled to stick close to his restive men, "to stem a torrent which seems ready to overwhelm us." | Ron Chernow | ||
| e36cffd | A man of irreproachable integrity, Hamilton severed all outside sources of income while in office, something that neither Washington nor Jefferson nor Madison dared to do. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0f5eaf3 | justice, and Samuel, a plantation owner, also owned nearby houses. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0c98bb9 | liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. . . . [T]he former rather than the latter is apparently most to be apprehended by the United States. | Ron Chernow | ||
| fcdd692 | I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. | Ancestors | ||
| 12c43d1 | 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 | Ron Chernow | ||
| 2ffc18f | Many of the real scenes in early California life exceed in strangeness and interest any of the mere products of the brain of the novelist," he declared" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 790d36a | Hamilton said, "A nation without a national government is, in my view, an awful spectacle. The establishment of a constitution in [a] time of profound peace by the voluntary consent of a whole people is a prodigy, to the completion of which I look forward with trembling anxiety." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 2688d03 | 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. | Ron Chernow | ||
| b501e6b | Sheridan had a pugnacity that refused to quit, and Sherman described him as "a persevering terrier dog, honest, modest, plucky and smart enough."78 Quite unlike Grant," | Ron Chernow | ||
| c7b4abd | January 25, 1785, nineteen people gathered at the home of innkeeper John Simmons to form a society that would safeguard blacks who had already secured their freedom and try to win freedom for those still held in bondage. The group was called the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 62412d9 | Addison's Cato, | Ron Chernow | ||
| 67ac0b2 | a fashionable tailor with the splendid name of Hercules Mulligan, whose | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7b87aab | Grant was peppered with conflicting reports from white Democrats and black Republicans in Mississippi, who seemed to reside on different planets. One white complained to Grant about "ignorant" | Ron Chernow | ||
| aa3d829 | Hamilton's lifelong habit of talking sotto voce while pacing lent him an air of either inspiration or madness.) A | Ron Chernow | ||
| 1e15a63 | It now seemed futile to try to halt a British advance upon the capital. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7628d58 | mordant | Ron Chernow | ||
| c846419 | Confederate forces were being whittled down and could not be replaced by the South's smaller population. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 59a5cdd | This falling-out was to be more than personal, for the rift between Hamilton and Madison precipitated the start of the two-party system in America. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 64696c6 | It often happens that our zeal is at variance with our understanding. | Ron Chernow | ||
| bf697ca | appearances, not reality, ruled in politics, he | Ron Chernow | ||
| 5997e2b | 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 other. Like other Federalists infected with war fever, Hamilton increasingly mistook dissent for treason and engaged in hyperbole. In one newspaper piece, he blasted the Jeffersonians as "more Frenchmen than Americans" and declared that to slake t.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| e4e977c | plebiscite on the American treaty and resorted to strong-arm | Ron Chernow | ||
| 50f28a5 | The rich could put their own interests above the national interests. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 2f830c3 | There is no virtue [in] America. That commerce which preside[d over] the birth and education of these states has [fitted] their inhabitants for the chain and . . . the only condition they sincerely desire is that it may be a golden one. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 5f589e9 | Hamilton was more persuasive than he realized, and a delegation of business leaders soon approached him to subscribe to a "money-bank" that would thwart Livingston's land bank. "I was a little embarrassed how to act," Hamilton confessed sheepishly to Church, "but upon the whole I concluded it best to fall in with them." 51 Instead of launching a separate bank, Hamilton decided to represent Church and Wadsworth on the board of the new bank. .. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7641740 | Alexander McDougall, Nathanael Greene, Lord Stirling, and Washington | Ron Chernow | ||
| 28bc145 | extracts from a six-volume set of Plutarch's Lives. Thereafter, Hamilton always interpreted politics as an epic tale from Plutarch of lust and greed and people plotting for power. Since his political theory was rooted in his study of human nature, he took special delight in Plutarch's biographical sketches. And he carefully noted the creation of senates, priesthoods, and other elite bodies that governed the lives of the people. Hamilton was.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 9835d22 | I am aware that a man of real merit is never seen in so favourable a light as seen through the medium of adversity, | Ron Chernow | ||
| f700cdf | There does not exist a more villainous calumniator or incendiary," he wrote.86" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 2757ae1 | He was especially intent that the federal judiciary check any legislative abuses. In number 78, Hamilton introduced an essential concept, never made explicit in the Constitution: that the Supreme Court should be able to review and overturn legislation as unconstitutional. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 8f8d227 | rude and petulant, his frank manner a cloak for infinite calculation. Clinton | Ron Chernow | ||
| 64a3d29 | adumbrate a | Ron Chernow | ||
| ce6d3a0 | optimistic view of America's potential coexisted with an essentially pessimistic view of human nature. His | Ron Chernow |