342 Quotes by Ron Chernow

Washington and other founders entertained the fanciful hope that America would be spared the bane of political parties, which they called “factions” and associated with parochial self-interest.

Rockefeller was sensitive about adults who behaved in a high-handed fashion toward him. Having assumed so much responsibility at home, he now thought of himself as a mature person.

As president, he lectured a young relative about to enter college that “every hour misspent is lost forever” and that “future years cannot compensate for lost days at this period of your life.”15.

Clinton represented what would become a staple of American political folklore: the local populist boss, not overly punctilious or savory yet embraced warmly by the masses as one of their own.

After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton shut off some compartment of his emotions and never reopened it.

To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering as a farmer: “I regard every load of wood taken, when the services of both myself and team are required on the farm, is a direct loss of more than the value of the load.”114.

America’s character would be defined by how it treated its vanquished enemies, and.

It was, Eliza Hamilton Holly noted pointedly, the imperative duty that Eliza had bequeathed to all her children: Justice shall be done to the memory of my Hamilton.

Few First Ladies – and the name wasn’t yet commonly used – have so reveled in the White House or developed such a proprietary feeling about it. “Eight happy years I spent there – so happy!” Julia would reminisce. “It still seems as much like home to me as the old farm in Missouri, White Haven.