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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 24100e0 | So it may be said, with undoubted truth, that the whiskey drinkers made Mr. Jefferson the President of the United States. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 35d0296 | Back at 23 Wall Street, Lamont received a wire from Jack Morgan expressing disgust with Mexico. Jack thought it a point of family honor to make sure Mexico repaid his father's 1899 loan: "I did not think any Government of modern times would so frankly proclaim its complete dishonesty or its abandonment of all decent finance or morals. Hope you did not have too trying a time, and congratulate you in getting out before they stole your pocketb.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| bf3f3cd | I will venture to pronounce it one of the most ludicrous performances which has been exhibited to public view during all the present controversy-Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow | ||
| 369e683 | This treasured gift retained a secret meaning for Eliza, for it had been a tacit gesture of solidarity from Washington when her husband was ensnared in the first major sex scandal in American history. The | Ron Chernow | ||
| d7b735b | the practice of mankind ought to have great weight against the theories of individuals. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 17606dd | has seldom been without its evils. It is to this source we are to trace many of the fatal mistakes which have so deeply endangered the common cause, particularly that defect which will be the object of these remarks, a want of power in Congress. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 5dfa559 | Where revolutions, by their nature, resisted excess government power, the opposite situation could be equally hazardous. "As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people." | Ron Chernow | ||
| ce63ee7 | In his response to Livingston, Hamilton made clear that some family members thought he was excessively preoccupied by the opposite sex. "I exercise [my pen] at the [risk] of being anathematized by grave censors for dedicating so much of my time to so trifling and insignificant a toy as--woman." Though Livingston, apparently, had spurned his advances--he chides her apathy--he concludes philosophically that "I shall probably be in a fine way".. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 4729a98 | Like her youngest son, Julia administered stern lectures on republican virtue. Before supper, two noblewomen stopped by to school her in palace etiquette. "Mrs. Grant," one said, "I hope you will not feel fatigued. Our Queen always receives standing." Julia replied breezily, "Oh, I am sure I will not feel the fatigue. You must remember I too have received for the last eight years and always standing."32 Julia was at pains to remind the two .. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 5dc21e3 | He cleverly assumed that he was addressing loyal people and made common cause with them: I have come among you, not as an enemy, but as your friend and fellow-citizen, not to injure or annoy you, but to respect the rights, and to defend and enforce the rights of all loyal citizens. An enemy, in rebellion against our common government, has taken possession of, and planted its guns upon the soil of Kentucky and fired upon our flag . . . He is.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7c3048d | As a lender of last resort, the House of Morgan favored like-minded institutions of similar character and background. Kidder, Peabody was just such a firm. It didn't hustle business or steal clients and always played by Morgan rules. In 1930, it was hit by multiple blows. The Italian government removed $8 million in deposits, and the new Bank for International Settlements instructed Kidder to switch big sums to a Swiss bank. This led to ano.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7f64a38 | Whitney brought in his friends Edwin Webster, Chandler Hovey, and Albert H. Gordon to take over the company's name and goodwill. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 1af5eb3 | Delenda est Carthago: Carthage must be destroyed and obliterated. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 5d38200 | Callender denied the authenticity of Maria Reynolds's billets-doux to Hamilton and conjectured that Hamilton had forged them, filling them with spelling errors to make them seem plausible. Quite understandably, Callender could not conceive that someone as smart and calculating as Hamilton could have stayed so long in thrall to an enslaving passion. Hamilton could not have been stupid enough to pay hush money for sex, Callender alleged, so t.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| c089466 | orders. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 9fa59de | Returning to his Manhattan town house on Christmas Eve, Grant, sixty-one, pivoted to hand the driver a holiday tip when he slipped on the icy pavement and crashed to the ground, tearing a thigh muscle and possibly fracturing his hip. Until then a robust man, he crumpled over in excruciating pain and was hoisted up the steps by servants. Through anxious winter weeks, he remained bedridden or hobbled about on crutches. Before long, his discom.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| fa80d57 | Burr is said to have remarked, "Had I read Sterne more and Voltaire less, I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me."61" | Ron Chernow | ||
| bcbbb9f | to arm and exasperate the negroes in the South."75 Some Washington observers floated scenarios of a constitutional showdown in which Johnson would deploy Grant and the military to silence Congress. Suddenly Grant's political tendencies became of more than theoretical interest. Ben Butler, now a Radical Republican, wondered privately whether "Grant can be trusted to disobey positive orders of his chief? When the hour of peril comes, shall we.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 940ad71 | Steuben | Ron Chernow | ||
| b269e15 | The remedy is for people to stop watching the ticker, listening to the radio, drinking bootleg gin, and dancing to jazz . . . and return to the old economics and prosperity based upon saving and working. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 723fef1 | Grant explained to Porter his aversion to profanities, saying "swearing helps to rouse a man's anger; and when a man flies into a passion his adversary who keeps cool always gets the better of him."50" | Ron Chernow | ||
| a848fe0 | After all, the devil's work was now sprinkled with holy water. | Ron Chernow | ||
| e0c5de9 | He has no desire to rise by the fall of others; no glorying over another's abasement; | Ron Chernow | ||
| 03ad4fe | democracy, | Ron Chernow | ||
| 9cff11a | My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you." | Ancestors | ||
| 286f27c | Finally, while I don't want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens's Great Expectations over Kathy Acker's Great Expectations, though I'll take Lauren Fairbanks's Sister Carrie over Dreiser's any day--there's a whole other world of novels out there most people never even hear of, much less read. Let's go see. | Steven Moore | ||
| fb4833c | From the point of view of most of the Arabs, another foreign conqueror, heretic and Western, had come into their land, evicted their Muslim occupier and claimed the local people to have been liberated. Then, like all the others, it established itself as the ruling authority. | Janet Wallach | ||
| 24e464e | When the Balfour Declaration was released to the public at the end of the year, Gertrude attacked it viciously. Sir Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, had written a letter to Lord Rothschild, leader of the Jewish community in England, promising "a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration vowed not to prejudice "the civil and religious rights" of the Arabs already living in Palestine." | Janet Wallach | ||
| 6c6ee55 | What would happen if we withdrew? ... After the enormous expenditure which we have incurred in freeing this country from the withering despotism of the Turk, to hand it back to anarchy and confusion, and to take no responsibility for its development would be an act of folly and quite indefensible. | Janet Wallach | ||
| e118ff0 | But her role had changed; she was now available for marriage and her primary task was to find a mate. As Florence and Hugh Bell's daughter, she was expected to make an excellent match. And if there wasn't one here, at least she would learn how to conduct herself for the chase. | gertrude | Janet Wallach | |
| d1e911f | American President, Woodrow Wilson, whose idealistic thoughts were purely on his new concepts of the League of Nations and the mandate system. "The peoples of the world are awake and the peoples of the world are in the saddle," Wilson would declare, hoping to spur the former territories of the Germans and the Turks to self-determination." | Janet Wallach | ||
| a71df2f | controlled the lives of two hundred | Janet Wallach | ||
| 14b5143 | The ultimate source of power, here as in the whole course of Arab history, is the personality of the commander. Through him, whether he be an Abbasid Khalif or an Amir of Nejd, the political entity holds, and with his disappearance it breaks." The echo of her words would ring throughout the region for the rest of the century, in men like Gamal Abdel Nasser, Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein." | Janet Wallach | ||
| 833d163 | Faisal and Lawrence had come from London, where, on January 3, 1919, Faisal signed an agreement with the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the principle of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. | Janet Wallach | ||
| 0c5e5db | Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is watching, after all. Don't wanna hurt His feelings.) And if you don't like your life, CHANGE IT. It is all yours. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| 88ebe76 | Daddy always pointed out, it should come as no surprises to anyone that merchants want to move their wares-it's sorta what they do, after all. But that's just BUSINESS and that has nothing to do with CHRISTMAS. | commercialism | Jill Conner Browne | |
| 639a650 | FINANCIAL TIP For guys-- buying the stupid flowers when you're supposed to will be way cheaper than what you'll have to buy and do to make up for it if you forget. | buying-flowers financial-tips sweet-potato-queens | Jill Conner Browne | |
| 81a640f | So, whoever you are out there who's convinced all these guys to commit this hair-trocity--why not push it a little further and get 'em to go all-out-Ed-Grimley and start wearing their pants up under their armpits and all? Come to think of it--that WOULD eliminate the proliferation of butt cracks we've been forced to view the last few years, revealed by the enduring but baffling "fad" of wearing your pants in such a way as to offer ease to a.. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| bb8983c | sure, I've heard the weight-loss gurus spouting their "nothing tastes as good as being thin feels" mantra, and as I've said before--BULLSHIT. The times in my life when I have been thin, I enjoyed it well enough, but trust me, PLENTY of stuff tastes WAY better than being thin feels. For that matter, come to think of it, FEELING FULL FEELS better than being thin does." | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| 12d4a0c | in certain regions of Italy, women of ill-repute or evil looks are forbidden to enter cheese factories. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| e643901 | Familiarity, not survival, is the strongest drive in human beings. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| eaeaf7c | I am surprised that Chicago--the Big-Shouldered City--is so trifling that they won't let you eat in a restaurant if it's on fire. Even if you already paid. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| d494963 | In trying times, such as the ones we currently find ourselves mired in the middle of, one wants a distraction from one's troubles, and I find it most helpful to plan and engage in a pleasant outing or two with close and like-minded friends. Or you could go gator huntin'. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| d5952ee | Likewise, she will know that if I start watching reality TV, quoting Dr. Phil, riding roller coasters, and seem to have forsaken bacon in favor of anything soy--it's time to Get the Pillow. That's what--well, I can't tell you who but she's a nurse--says they all say when they've got a particularly cantankerous patient on their wing. | Jill Conner Browne |