“I daily discover so much baseness and ingratitude among mankind that I almost blush at being of the same species, and could quit the stage without regret, was it not for some gentle, generous souls like my dear Peggy. Benedict” — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
“I daily discover so much baseness and ingratitude among mankind that I almost blush at being of the same species, and could quit the… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the eighteenth century… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“In three years of backbreaking studies that, according to Madison , "exacted perhaps the most severe of Jefferson's public labors," Jefferson had almost single-handedly… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“Working behind the scenes to advance his candidacy, Hamilton seemed unfazed by the fact that virtually all other commissions were going to native New… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“No longer an American, Benedict Arnold was never accepted as an Englishman, either.” — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“While he was to become adept at business, Hamilton, the man who was to found America’s financial system, as a schoolboy had to struggle… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“seventy to eighty former members of their secret police that the British left behind undetected in Philadelphia.” — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“He had decided, almost hysterically it seems from the tone of this desperate letter to Washington, to turn his back on the people who… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“The fiercely independent Arnold did not need the encouragement of Loyalists: he may have thought of changing sides as early as the seniority controversy… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“He claimed as a loss that "in consequence of his loyalty and engagements with Sir Henry Clinton he refused the command of the American… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“Return enraptur'd Hours, When Delia's heart was mine; When she, with wreaths of flowers, My Temples wou'd entwine. When Jealousy nor care Corroded in… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“Hamilton’s second pamphlet made clear his maturing belief that private interest was the glue that would hold American society together and make it succeed.… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“even in the Loyalist press inside British-occupied New York City by February 1779. The Royal Gazette, praising Benedict Arnold for being "more distinguished for… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
“But Henry was not prepared to submit. In a speech supporting his resolutions, he supposedly exclaimed, "Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus, Charles… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share
