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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 170647f | To ensure that he won, he submitted to games only where he could dictate the rules. | Ron Chernow | ||
| be8beb9 | chaste and tender (I am an enthusiast in my notions of fidelity and fondness), | Ron Chernow | ||
| ac26dad | It may be that Hamilton's preference for a diversified economy of manufacturing and agriculture originated in his youthful reflections on the avoidable poverty he had witnessed in the Caribbean. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 33337f8 | In politics, I am indifferent what side she may be of; I think I have arguments that will easily convert her to mine. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0d0a61e | 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 fearing the potential uprisings of the disaffected slaves. The twin specters of despotism and anarchy were to haunt him for the rest of his life. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 5b7a086 | On July 6, while Captain Hamilton wandered about trying to find a purse with money that he had lost--he sometimes had a touch of the absentminded genius--the local press announced independence. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 077d696 | The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money. | Ron Chernow | ||
| d4f9914 | Thinking the move suicidal, Grant believed the South would stop short of the "awful leap" of secession.41" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 1d41469 | In retrospect, it was clear that he had found his calling as a fearless, swashbuckling intellectual warrior who excelled in bare-knuckled controversy. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 15b6b5d | D. Rockefeller drew strength by simplifying reality and strongly believed that excessive reflection upon unpleasant but unalterable events only weakened one's resolve in the face of enemies. | Ron Chernow | ||
| cf38363 | Grant had overwhelmingly won the electoral vote, and had garnered the largest popular majority of the century, nearly 56 percent of the vote, the biggest percentage between Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt. | Ron Chernow | ||
| e184379 | Once Hamilton was initiated into the cause of American liberty, his life acquired an even more headlong pace that never slackened. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 43408fd | 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 multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority. The due medium is hardly to be found among the more inte.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| b400b99 | The fifty-five delegates representing twelve states--the renegade Rhode Island boycotted the convention--scarcely constituted a cross section of America. They were white, educated males and mostly affluent property owners. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 72703eb | The most damning and hypocritical critiques of his allegedly aristocratic economic system emanated from the most aristocratic southern slaveholders, who deflected attention from their own nefarious deeds by posing as populist champions and assailing the northern financial and mercantile interests aligned with Hamilton. | Ron Chernow | ||
| daee068 | The winning candidate needed 379 votes. On the first ballot, Grant drew a narrow lead of 304 votes versus 284 for Blaine, 93 for Sherman, 34 for George F. Edmunds of Vermont and--confirming Grant's worst fears--30 for Washburne. These last votes, the unkindest cut for Grant, denied him an insuperable lead. The convention then wore on through many wearisome ballots, marked by trifling changes in the vote count. On the third ballot, two new n.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| bf1d7cd | fillip | Ron Chernow | ||
| 69d70aa | Rawlins let loose a stemwinder of a speech that lasted forty-five minutes. His voice throbbing with emotion, he thundered, "I have been a Democrat all my life; but this is no longer a question of politics. It is simply country or no country. I have favored every honorable compromise; but the day for compromise is passed." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0a962b3 | When pastor John Heyl Vincent dropped by to transmit his hope that Ulysses "might be preserved from all harm and restored to his family," Julia fairly burst out with a new fantasy: "Dear me! I hope he will get to be a major-general or something big!"75" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 68e1af8 | When he exhausted his list, he simply started over from the top and visited several firms two or three times. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 858f043 | Another boy might have been crestfallen, but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 09948b3 | Hamilton did not think Burr would be a harmless, lackadaisical president. "He is sanguine enough to hope everything, daring enough to attempt everything, wicked enough to scruple nothing," Hamilton told Gouverneur Morris. 16 From his legal practice, Hamilton knew that Burr had exorbitant debts and might be susceptible to bribes from foreign governments. He briefed Federalists about the scandals involving Burr and the Holland Company and the.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7390d07 | What makes Flagler's ethics consequential for Rockefeller's career was that he was the mastermind of many negotiations with the railroads--the single most controversial aspect of Standard Oil history. | Ron Chernow | ||
| b23772a | Despite Grant's best efforts at Appomattox, the breach of the Civil War never healed but became deeply embedded in American political culture. | Ron Chernow | ||
| b67481a | My family is American," Ulysses later declared proudly, "and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral." | chernow grant | Ron Chernow | |
| 36f6d29 | laird | Ron Chernow | ||
| ab699c4 | doggerel | Ron Chernow | ||
| 87dd64d | bibulous | Ron Chernow | ||
| 79b5eca | Hamilton then picked up a slim volume on the table and turned it over in his hands. "Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 9b1d2cc | valerian, | Ron Chernow | ||
| e5501aa | surcease | Ron Chernow | ||
| 8ba25fc | Neither he nor anyone else could have predicted that this overweight, rheumatic, vain, pompous, gluttonous inebriate would be so ardent in battle." 62" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 1548433 | As Madison conceded, the specter of slavery haunted the convention, and he argued that "the states were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not having slaves. . . . [The conflict] did not lie between the large and small states. It lay between the northern and southern." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0390f44 | In a question of veracity between U.S. Grant and Andrew Johnson, between a soldier whose honor is as untarnished as the sun, and a President who has betrayed every friend, and broken every promise, the country will not hesitate," wrote the New York Tribune.60" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 00609e2 | Whatever his disappointments, Hamilton, forty, must have left Philadelphia with an immense feeling of accomplishment. The Whiskey Rebellion had been suppressed, the country's finances flourished, and the investigation into his affairs had ended with a ringing exoneration. He had prevailed in almost every major program he had sponsored--whether the bank, assumption, funding the public debt, the tax system, the Customs Service, or the Coast G.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 53cacc0 | noisome | Ron Chernow | ||
| ed0e9a7 | peroration, | Ron Chernow | ||
| e6f6893 | Even as a raw country boy, he allowed himself no oath stronger than "Thunder and Lightning" | Ron Chernow | ||
| a2a6577 | Conforming to tradition, the convention sent a delegation to Grant with official notice of his nomination. In return, he scratched out a statement that mostly dealt in standard rhetoric, concluding with four words that formed the slogan of his campaign and remained irreversibly associated with him: "Let us have peace." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 67f7540 | For some, the credo sounded blandly vacuous and Henry Adams wisecracked that "Let Us Have Peace" meant only "Leave Me Alone."16" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 49b84f0 | Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, a bespectacled Republican with a grizzled beard, who was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College and Law School. A former member of the Free-Soil Party, an upright gentleman of starchy integrity, he had served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court where he used sarcasm to savage lesser mortals. "When on the bench," wrote an observer, "he was said to be unhappy because he could not decide ag.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 05cf665 | Grant roomed with Fred Dent, who also singled out Grant as "the clearest headed young man I ever saw . . . He always wanted to do what was right, and we all had great respect for him. He was a singed cat--a great deal better than he looked." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0f4b0be | 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 of slavery passed away forever."49 It is not surprising that Julia Dent grew up seeing her girlhood in these storybook terms. It is surprising that when she wrote her memoirs as an elderly woman, the Civil War and Reconstruction had done so li.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 489d0ca | The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side--and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other. | public-schools | Ron Chernow |