Willard Sterne Randall

“seventy to eighty former members of their secret police that the British left behind undetected in Philadelphia.”

— Willard Sterne Randall

“No longer an American, Benedict Arnold was never accepted as an Englishman, either.”

— Willard Sterne Randall

“While he was to become adept at business, Hamilton, the man who was to found America’s financial system, as a schoolboy had…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“He had decided, almost hysterically it seems from the tone of this desperate letter to Washington, to turn his back on the…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“I daily discover so much baseness and ingratitude among mankind that I almost blush at being of the same species, and could…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“The fiercely independent Arnold did not need the encouragement of Loyalists: he may have thought of changing sides as early as the…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“In three years of backbreaking studies that, according to Madison , "exacted perhaps the most severe of Jefferson's public labors," Jefferson had…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“Working behind the scenes to advance his candidacy, Hamilton seemed unfazed by the fact that virtually all other commissions were going to…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“British lottery for the relief of the poor,”

— Willard Sterne Randall

“By 1778, British peace commissioners were offering to rectify all the American grievances of 1776, ignoring only the demand for independence.”

— Willard Sterne Randall

“General Arnold's affection for me is unbounded. He is the best of husbands. Peggy Shippen Arnold to her father, February 1786 Twenty-five”

— Willard Sterne Randall

“The relatives of a great man often fail to see his achievements as clearly as they see his everyday failures, flaws, hypocrisy,…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“Envy and malice are indefatigable. Where they have not invention enough to frame new slanders, or the slanders newly framed are found…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“in August 1777 that "no public or private injury or insult shall prevail on me to forsake the cause of my injured…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“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…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“Hamilton’s second pamphlet made clear his maturing belief that private interest was the glue that would hold American society together and make…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“He claimed as a loss that "in consequence of his loyalty and engagements with Sir Henry Clinton he refused the command of…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“But Henry was not prepared to submit. In a speech supporting his resolutions, he supposedly exclaimed, "Tarquin and Caesar had each his…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“even in the Loyalist press inside British-occupied New York City by February 1779. The Royal Gazette, praising Benedict Arnold for being "more…

— Willard Sterne Randall