“Only a free press could check abuses of executive power, Hamilton asserted.” — Ron Chernow Executive power Copy Share Image
In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical. — Ron Chernow Actor Copy Share Image
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Grant’s catatonic state didn’t last. Soon he was devoting four or five hours daily to his memoirs,” — Ron Chernow Memoirs Copy Share Image
“Tis only to consult our own hearts to be convinced that nations like individuals revolt at the idea of being guided by… — Ron Chernow Compulsion Copy Share Image
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“In the words of Frederick Douglass, “That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, any kindness I can show to any… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market.… — Ron Chernow Blind Copy Share Image
I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in… — Ron Chernow Age Copy Share Image
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm… — Ron Chernow Burrs Copy Share Image
“The most damning and hypocritical critiques of his allegedly aristocratic economic system emanated from the most aristocratic southern slaveholders, who deflected attention… — Ron Chernow Economic system Copy Share Image
“He railed against the baleful precedent that would be set if the legislature exiled an entire category of people without hearings or… — Ron Chernow Freedom Copy Share Image
“Grant promised to send the Oglala Sioux large herds of sheep and cattle for raising stock and to build schools that would… — Ron Chernow Sioux Copy Share Image
“in the end he required political pull to do so. After years of wandering, Grant had popped up in the right congressional… — Ron Chernow Politics Copy Share Image
“A group of Wall Street admirers created for Grant a $250,000 Presidential Retiring Fund, which would not only yield $15,000 in annual… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Rawlins let loose a stemwinder of a speech that lasted forty-five minutes. His voice throbbing with emotion, he thundered, “I have been… — Ron Chernow Communication Copy Share Image
“With a soil and climate scarcely equaled in the world,” he protested, Mexico “has more poor and starving subjects who are willing… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“On August 5, he sent Stanton a one-sentence letter: “Public considerations of a high character constrain me to say, that your resignation… — Ron Chernow War Copy Share Image
“The trial wasn’t the finest hour of American justice as the treatment of the prisoners seemed medieval in its barbarism. Almost all… — Ron Chernow Defendants Copy Share Image
“Shiloh, but it sorely disappointed the Century editors. Written in Grant’s pithy style, it was arid and compact and read like a… — Ron Chernow Every night Copy Share Image
“And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be… — Ron Chernow Greed Copy Share Image
“Right before his inauguration, he received a Quaker delegation and asked them to nominate Indian agents from their members. “If you can… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“In early June, Grant traveled to St. Louis, where he had gained possession of White Haven and an additional 280 acres from… — Ron Chernow West point Copy Share Image
“Grant refused to accept that. In a newspaper interview, he placed blame for the disaster squarely on Custer’s shoulders: I regard Custer’s… — Ron Chernow Custer Copy Share Image
“Not simply wanting compensation for destroyed American vessels, he added a still more explosive demand: that Britain pay a staggering $2 billion… — Ron Chernow Merchant marine Copy Share Image
It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full… — Ron Chernow Black hole Copy Share Image
“if a white man kills a black, he cannot be tried for his life for the murder. . . . If a negro strikes a… — Ron Chernow Life Copy Share Image
Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors… — Ron Chernow Affair Copy Share Image
“Finally, he [John F. Mercer] ridiculed Hamilton as an upstart, "a mushroom excrescence," who did not deserve the prominence he had gained.” — Ron Chernow Insults Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are many more people who can identify with failure and hardship in life than with the success of an… — Ron Chernow Failure Copy Share Image
“he warned that progressive accumulation of debt “is perhaps the NATURAL DISEASE of all Governments. And it is not easy to conceive… — Ron Chernow Nature Copy Share Image
“Franklin wanted a unicameral legislature and an executive council in lieu of a president. He also opposed a presidential veto on legislation,… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. — Ron Chernow Brilliant Copy Share Image
Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
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