342 Quotes by Ron Chernow

Months after leaving office, he wrote to the Bank of the United States and admitted that he did not know his account balance because he had lost his bank book – this from the man who had created the bank. He.

Both as a matter of temperament and policy, Washington was taciturn, once advising his adopted grandson, “It is best to be silent, for there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

Many mickles make a muckle.

So it may be said, with undoubted truth, that the whiskey drinkers made Mr. Jefferson the President of the United States.”48.

It turned out that before he had stalked Garfield, Charles Guiteau had stalked Grant.

Grant worded his message to remove any suspicion that he spoke for a particular religious denomination. Also buried in his statement was a courageous, farsighted plea for free, universal education for black children. The laconic Grant’s crusade for public education was a unique event in his presidency, the result of a riveting speech that had forced an issue on the national consciousness through powerful oratory.

Paranoid thinking seems to be a legacy of all revolutions, with purists searching for signs of heresy, and the American experience was no exception.

America, he argued, did not need to triumph decisively over the heavily taxed British: a war of attrition that eroded British credit would nicely do the trick. All the patriots had to do was plant doubts among Britain’s creditors about the war’s outcome.

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