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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6342d5d | THE FIRST TOWN IN AMERICA | Ron Chernow | ||
| 449577f | At another point, they met an old man in the roadway whom John so sedulously drained of local lore that the latter finally pleaded with weary resignation, "For God's sake if you will go with me over to that barn yonder, I will start and tell you everything I ever knew."72 This was the same monotonously inquisitive young man who was known as "the Sponge" in the Oil Regions." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 850304f | even to the renowned Washington. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7256b62 | I have stopped the damned rascal's lying tongue at any rate," he" | Ron Chernow | ||
| b99c6ca | between 1789 and 1791, France basked in some sort of liberal pleasure garden before the erection of the guillotine is a complete fantasy. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 2d50977 | Machiavelli's The Prince and Plutarch's Lives, | Ron Chernow | ||
| 5c14ac5 | The proposed Senate was especially loathsome to Clintonians, who feared it would be an aristocratic conclave. They introduced an amendment allowing state legislatures to recall their senators. This idea touched a live wire in Hamilton, who saw the Senate as a check on fickle popular will and in need of political insulation. The proposal prompted him to make a speech on the dangers of maintaining a continuous revolutionary mentality in Ameri.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| ad03623 | Hamilton was an exuberant genius who performed at a fiendish pace and must have produced the maximum number of words that a human being can scratch out in forty-nine years. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7ecfd8f | freedom | Ron Chernow | ||
| 037f77c | What a world of scarred emotion and secret grief Alexander Hamilton bore with him on the boat to Boston. He took his unhappy boyhood, tucked it away in a mental closet, and never opened the door again. Beside the horrid memories, this young dynamo simply was not cut out for the drowsy, slow-paced life of slave owners on a tropical island, and he never evinced the least nostalgia for his West Indian boyhood or voiced any desire to return. | Ron Chernow | ||
| f4a59a9 | 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 of anarchy and disorder that always struggled with his no less active love of liberty. Perhaps the true legacy of his boyhood was an equivocal one: he came to detest the tyranny embodied by the planters and their authoritarian rule, while also f.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0842519 | To endure such suffering required stoicism reminiscent of the ancient Romans, so Washington had his favorite play, Addison's Cato, the story of a self-sacrificing Roman statesman, staged at Valley Forge to buck up his weary men. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0fd2678 | Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation, | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0eaffe9 | an Anglican college in New York, which, he warned, would become "a contracted receptacle of bigotry" -- | Ron Chernow | ||
| df4f961 | Grant's catatonic state didn't last. Soon he was devoting four or five hours daily to his memoirs, | Ron Chernow | ||
| 89b8d78 | whose | Ron Chernow | ||
| 42404ca | From the outset, the young Hamilton had phenomenal stamina for sustained work: ambitious, orphaned boys do not enjoy the option of idleness. | Ron Chernow | ||
| e76b7e4 | Whatever Hoar's injury, he departed in gentlemanly fashion, sending Grant a gracious farewell note. In private, however, he broadcast his anger and "wished the government might be destroyed." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 44a0eaf | Hamilton hit the ground running: the very next day, he arranged a fifty-thousand-dollar loan for the federal government from the Bank of New York. The day after that, a Sunday, he worked all day at the Treasury's new office on Broadway, just south of Trinity Church. He dashed off a plea to the Bank of North America in Philadelphia, asking for another fifty thousand dollars. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 73d1983 | From modest origins, the Treasury offices proliferated until they occupied the entire block. The 1791 city directory gives an anatomy of this burgeoning department, with 8 employees in Hamilton's office, 13 in the comptroller's, 15 in the auditor's, 19 in the register's, 3 in the treasurer's, 14 in the office for settling accounts between the federal government and the states, and 21 in the customs office on Second Street, with an additiona.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| ea886c5 | Aware of the widespread prejudice against banks, Hamilton knew he needed to set out their advantages. Echoing Adam Smith, he showed how gold and silver, if locked up in a merchant's chest, were sterile. Deposit them in a bank, however, and these dead metals sprang to life as "nurseries of national wealth," forming a credit supply several times larger than the coins heaped in the bank's vaults.13" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 6c52a92 | People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. | Ancestors | ||
| ed96a76 | Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. | Ancestors | ||
| 2236550 | Convinced that struggle was the crucible of character, Rockefeller faced a delicate task in raising his children. He wanted to accumulate wealth while inculcating in them the values of his threadbare boyhood. The first step in saving them from extravagance was keeping them ignorant of their father's affluence. Until they were adults, Rockefeller's children never visited his office or refineries, and even then they were accompanied by compan.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| ca5da69 | Few figures in American History have aroused such visceral love or loathing as Alexander Hamilton. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 790a7c3 | I shall conclude [by] saying I wish there was a war. Alex. Hamilton. | Ron Chernow | ||
| ec41c39 | Hamilton did not know it, but he just wrote himself out of poverty. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 326391d | What a world of scarred emotion and secret grief Alexander Hamilton bore with him on the boat to Boston. He took his unhappy boyhood, tucked it away in a mental closet, and never opened the door again. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 3239b71 | Kitty] was the type of woman Hamilton found irresistible: pretty, coquettish, somewhat spoiled, and always ready for flirtatious banter. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0d5b73e | From later descriptions, however, we know that [Alexander Hamilton] stood about five foot seven and had a fair complexion, auburn hair, rosy cheeks, and a wide, well-carved mouth. His nose, with its flaring nostrils and irregular line, was especially strong and striking, his jaw chiseled and combative. Slim and elegant, with thin shoulders and shapely legs, he walked with a buoyant lightness, and his observant, flashing eyes darted about wi.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 5ba7c0d | After Seabury rebutted "A Full Vindication", Hamilton struck back with "The Farmer Refuted," an eighty page tour de force..." | Ron Chernow | ||
| d88a74c | Earlier generations of biographers had to rely on only a meager portion of his voluminous output. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 65de0fa | all show of decorum | Ron Chernow | ||
| 9a68cf3 | pork with a little change of the sauce? | Ron Chernow | ||
| b74be1b | 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. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 07ebcf7 | scion of a blue-ribbon Scottish family: "The" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 5046a77 | adumbrate a plan | Ron Chernow | ||
| 8294824 | So grave were the interstate tensions over trade that Nathaniel Gorham, named president of Congress in 1786, feared that clashes between New York and its neighbors might degenerate into civil war. Similarly acrimonious trade disputes erupted between other states with major seaports and neighbors who imported goods through them. The states were arrogating a right that properly belonged to a central government: the right to formulate trade po.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 2622d2a | The same day, Hamilton wrote to James McHenry | Ron Chernow | ||
| 4d75079 | All the patriots had to do was plant doubts among Britain's creditors about the war's outcome. "By stopping the progress of their conquests and reducing them to an unmeaning and disgraceful defensive, we destroy the national expectation of success from which the ministry draws their resources." 11 This was an extremely subtle, sophisticated analysis for a young man immersed in wartime details for four years: America could defeat the British.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 8fbe14b | I have always thought that the notion of a Republic is a noble one, dating back to the glory days of Hellas, which all D'Angelines regard fondly as the last Golden Era before the coming of Elua. Now, seeing it in action, I was not so sure. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 54dc34a | I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar. | Ancestors | ||
| 6b95f7c | Hamilton continued to stew about the Articles of Confederation, which had been ratified belatedly by the last state on February 27, 1781. Hamilton thought this loose framework a prescription for rigor mortis. There was no federal judiciary, no guiding executive, no national taxing power, and no direct power over people as individuals, only as citizens of the states. In Congress, each state had one vote, and nine of the thirteen states had t.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 9c0c12f | equaled. If Jefferson provided the essential poetry of American political discourse, Hamilton established the prose of American statecraft. | Ron Chernow |