American society Quote by Willard Sterne Randall

“The American Revolution and its aftermath coincided with two great transformations in the late eighteenth century. In the political sphere, there had been a…

— Ron Chernow

“Americans could achieve Jefferson’s democratic freedoms through Hamilton’s economic development strategies and trade policies.”

— Patrick Mendis

“Hamilton, the most brilliant American statesman who ever lived, possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time, was of course easily the foremost…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Yet in the 1950s and '60s, a wide range of historians quickly and uncritically...[sought to] rule out of serious discussion of the American founding…

— William Hogeland

“(Jefferson) was deeply suspicious of Hamilton's assumption plan (by which the nation would assume responsibility for the states' individual war debts.) He feared this…

— Jay Winik

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Franklin’s own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence,”

— Walter Isaacson

“to find language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British, vague enough…

— Howard Zinn

“In the end, nobody would do more than Alexander Hamilton to infuse life into this parchment and make it the working mandate of the…

— Ron Chernow

The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty....…

— Clinton Rossiter

“Imagine the American people united for the first time in a movement for fundamental change. Imagine society’s power taken away from the giant corporations,…

— Howard Zinn

“Hamilton has often been extolled as the exponent of a rational foreign policy based on cool calculations of national self-interest. But his April 14…

— Ron Chernow