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  1. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    Around this time, a young man named Samuel Slater slipped through the tight protective net thrown by British authorities around their textile business. As a former apprentice to Sir Richard Arkwright, Slater had sworn that he would never reveal his boss's trade secrets. Flouting this pledge, he sailed to New York and made contact with Moses Brown, a Rhode Island Quaker. Under Slater's supervision, Brown financed a spinning mill in Rhode Island that replicated Arkwright's mill. Hamilton received detailed reports of this triumph, and pretty soon milldams proliferated on New England's rivers. With patriotic pride, Brown predicted to Hamilton that "mills and machines may be erected in different places, in one year, to make all the cotton yarn that may be wanted in the United States." 29 Hamilton"
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  2. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    Burr is said to have remarked, "Had I read Sterne more and Voltaire less, I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me."61
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  3. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    Callender denied the authenticity of Maria Reynolds's billets-doux to Hamilton and conjectured that Hamilton had forged them, filling them with spelling errors to make them seem plausible. Quite understandably, Callender could not conceive that someone as smart and calculating as Hamilton could have stayed so long in thrall to an enslaving passion. Hamilton could not have been stupid enough to pay hush money for sex, Callender alleged, so the money paid to James Reynolds had to involve illicit speculation. In fairness to Callender, it is baffling that Hamilton submitted to blackmail for so long.
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  4. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    Delenda est Carthago: Carthage must be destroyed and obliterated.
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  5. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    In his response to Livingston, Hamilton made clear that some family members thought he was excessively preoccupied by the opposite sex. "I exercise {my pen} at the {risk} of being anathematized by grave censors for dedicating so much of my time to so trifling and insignificant a toy as-woman." Though Livingston, apparently, had spurned his advances-he chides her apathy-he concludes philosophically that "I shall probably be in a fine way" and tells her that "ALL FOR LOVE is my motto.
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  6. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    Where revolutions, by their nature, resisted excess government power, the opposite situation could be equally hazardous. "As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.
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  7. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    has seldom been without its evils. It is to this source we are to trace many of the fatal mistakes which have so deeply endangered the common cause, particularly that defect which will be the object of these remarks, a want of power in Congress.
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  8. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    the practice of mankind ought to have great weight against the theories of individuals.
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  9. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    This treasured gift retained a secret meaning for Eliza, for it had been a tacit gesture of solidarity from Washington when her husband was ensnared in the first major sex scandal in American history. The
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  10. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    I will venture to pronounce it one of the most ludicrous performances which has been exhibited to public view during all the present controversy-Alexander Hamilton"
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  11. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    So it may be said, with undoubted truth, that the whiskey drinkers made Mr. Jefferson the President of the United States.
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  12. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    Without Washington's guidance or public responsibility, he had again revealed a blazing, ungovernable temper that was unworthy of him and rendered him less effective. He also revealed anew that the man who had helped to forge a new structure of law and justice for American society remained mired in the old-fashioned world of blood feuds. When it came to intensely personal conflicts, New York's most famous lawyer still turned instinctively not to the courtroom, but to the dueling ground.
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