“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. Just as long as Americans learned to rein in their impulse toward unbridled greed and could… — 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
