“A lifelong Methodist, he had always viewed religious excess with a certain irony, having once told a clutch of ministers that America… — Ron Chernow Methodists Copy Share Image
“Rawlins was soon sidetracked from the war effort, however, by word from his wife, Emily, staying with her family in Goshen, New… — Ron Chernow Marriage Copy Share Image
“Noah Webster contended that Hamilton’s “ambition, pride, and overbearing temper” had destined him “to be the evil genius of this country.” — Ron Chernow Evil genius Copy Share Image
After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Tens of thousands of onlookers gaped in amazement as the shattered British troops marched out of Yorktown and, to the tune of… — Ron Chernow 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
“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
“When pastor John Heyl Vincent dropped by to transmit his hope that Ulysses “might be preserved from all harm and restored to… — Ron Chernow Hope Copy Share Image
“On September 20, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading for ten days. Grant received emergency pleas for purchases of Treasury bonds… — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
“Some Washington observers floated scenarios of a constitutional showdown in which Johnson would deploy Grant and the military to silence Congress. Suddenly… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering… — Ron Chernow Firewood Copy Share Image
“Had Napoleon been thoroughly unselfish, Grant suggested, he would have been the greatest man in history, such was his military genius. When… — Ron Chernow 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 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
“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 feud between Sherman and Stanton exposed a deep fissure that would shortly divide the country over Reconstruction. With the war ending,… — Ron Chernow Status quo Copy Share Image
“In his self-serving view of events, Lee believed that he had performed a prodigious feat, rescuing his overmatched army from danger and… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“A rump group of rebel soldiers formed a colony west of Vera Cruz called Carlota, which soon burgeoned into a community of… — Ron Chernow Confederate Copy Share Image
“Historians have been quick to pounce on the blind spots in Grant’s report. Less noticed is that he almost immediately recanted what… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“On June 20, at Johnson’s behest, Attorney General James Speed ordered the U.S. attorney in Norfolk to abandon Lee’s prosecution. On the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“[Philip's death was] beyond comparison the most afflicting of my life… He was truly a fine youth. But why should I repine?… — Ron Chernow Death Copy Share Image
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.… — Ron Chernow Journalism Copy Share Image
“Neither he nor anyone else could have predicted that this overweight, rheumatic, vain, pompous, gluttonous inebriate would be so ardent in battle.” — Ron Chernow War Copy Share Image
“If Madison in the 1780s was a philosopher king, Madison in the 1790s was a formidable practicing politician, and so skillful at… — Ron Chernow Philosophy Copy Share Image
“By 1872, under Grant’s leadership, the Ku Klux Klan had been smashed in the South. (Its later twentieth-century incarnation had no connection… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The fifty-five delegates representing twelve states—the renegade Rhode Island boycotted the convention—scarcely constituted a cross section of America. They were white, educated… — Ron Chernow Delegates Copy Share Image
“Months after leaving office, he wrote to the Bank of the United States and admitted that he did not know his account… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The power of the new mass media made Grant’s illness a national spectacle, with his doctors offering twice-daily updates on his condition.” — Ron Chernow Journalism Copy Share Image
“Hamilton warned that “a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than… — Ron Chernow Politics Copy Share Image
“After the French and Indian War, the British vacillated about whether to swap all of Canada for the island of Guadeloupe; in… — Ron Chernow French toast Copy Share Image
Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we… — Ron Chernow Bull market Copy Share Image
“As his life steadily unraveled, he pawned his gold watch and chain for $20 on December 23, 1857, to purchase Christmas presents… — Ron Chernow Christmas Copy Share Image
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Hamilton’s relatively short life robbed him not only of any chance for further accomplishment but of the opportunity to mold his historical… — Ron Chernow Life Copy Share Image
“Whatever Hoar’s injury, he departed in gentlemanly fashion, sending Grant a gracious farewell note. In private, however, he broadcast his anger and… — Ron Chernow Farewell Copy Share Image
Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than… — Ron Chernow Family Copy Share Image
![“[Philip's death was] beyond comparison the most afflicting of my life… He was truly a fine youth. But why should I repine? It was the will of heaven and he is now out of the reach of the seductions and calamities of a world full of folly, full of vice, full of danger, of least value in proportion…” quote by Ron Chernow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/ron-chernow-1189_death_philip-s-death-was-beyond-comparison-the_1595076.png)
