“The relatives of a great man often fail to see his achievements as clearly as they see his everyday failures, flaws, hypocrisy, pettiness, selfishness.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“No longer an American, Benedict Arnold was never accepted as an Englishman, either.” — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“seventy to eighty former members of their secret police that the British left behind undetected in Philadelphia.” — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
![“He claimed as a loss that "in consequence of his loyalty and engagements with Sir Henry Clinton he refused the command of the American Army in South Carolina, offered him by Washington, which was afterwards given to Greene, who [the memorialist is informed] has been rewarded . . . with the sum of…” quote by Willard Sterne Randall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60b/willard-sterne-randall-27391_american-army_he-claimed-as-a-loss-that-in-consequence_1810634.jpg)
