Quotes from Ron Chernow

All the pent-up frustrations produced by the accelerated change of the late nineteenth century were vented in spontaneous, often violent dissent.

By recruiting subordinates who had never worked at Standard Oil, he had a chance for a fresh start, where he could make his behavior, for the first time, as ethical as his rhetoric.

Frank advised his friend not to sell under any circumstances.

To give away the Rockefeller fortune with a clear conscience, he had to convince himself that it had been earned fairly.

As part of Rockefeller's silent craft and habit of extended premeditation, he never tipped off his adversaries to his plans for revenge, preferring to spring his reprisals on them.

In the first essay, Hamilton dealt with the objection that only Congress could issue a neutrality proclamation, since it alone had the power to declare war. Hamilton pointed out that if "the legislature have a right to make war, on the one hand, it is, on the other, the duty of the executive to preserve peace till war is declared."50 Once again, Hamilton broadened the authority of the executive branch in diplomacy, especially during emergencies.

Hamilton supervised the entire Federalist project. He dreamed up the idea, enlisted the participants, wrote the overwhelming bulk of the essays, and oversaw the publication.

Led by Gates, these subordinates guaranteed that the Rockefeller millions were donated or invested scrupulously.

From the First Philippic of Demosthenes, he plucked a passage that summed up his conception of a leader as someone who would not pander to popular whims. "As a general marches at the head of his troops," so should wise politicians "march at the head of affairs, insomuch that they ought not to wait the event to know what measures to take, but the measures which they have taken ought to produce the event.

Rockefeller paid the market price, roughly equivalent to what he paid his Standard colleagues for their stock that month.

He seldom spoke so harshly in public.

Junius insisted that every French document be accompanied by a certified translation.

os nova-iorquinos já obedeciam ao futuro estereótipo de serem pessoas que falavam rápido, abriam caminho a cotoveladas e corriam como loucos atrás de dinheiro.

Hamilton and his men ran so fast that they almost overtook the sappers, who were snapping off the edges of the sharpened tree branches and opening a breach through which the infantry rushed. Hamilton, hopping on the shoulder of a kneeling soldier, sprang onto the enemy parapet and summoned his men to follow. Their password was "Rochambeau"—"a good one," said one American, because it "sounds like 'Rush-on-boys' when pronounced quick.

I think you like money better than anything else in the whole world, and I do not. I like to have a little fun along with business as I go through life.

He completely misread Rockefeller's psychology.

To the dismay of critics, Standard Oil and other trusts fared quite well during the prolonged downturn.

Junior's presence at 26 Broadway further ensured that father would behave more ethically than in the past.

No detail was too trivial to escape his notice, and he often spouted the Scottish adage "Many mickles make a muckle"—that is, tiny things add up.

Since Hamilton had at least one sibling who had died in infancy or childhood, the poem may have summoned up memories of his own mother's hardships: For the sweet babe, my doting heart Did all a mother's fondness feel; Careful to act each tender part And guard from every threatening ill. But what alas! availed my care? The unrelenting hand of death, Regardless of a parent's prayer Has stopped my lovely infant's breath

The Premier has advanced too far to recede with safety: he is deeply interested to execute his purpose, if possible. . . . In common life, to retract an error even in the beginning is no easy task. Perseverance confirms us in it and rivets the difficulty. . . . To this we may add that disappointment and opposition inflame the minds of men and attach them still more to their mistakes.

a condição de aluno especial, que tinha sessões particulares com os professores e assistia a aulas, mas que não pertencia, pelo menos a princípio, a nenhuma turma específica.

That is, the man who would be rich must be thrifty.

January 25, 1785, nineteen people gathered at the home of innkeeper John Simmons to form a society that would safeguard blacks who had already secured their freedom and try to win freedom for those still held in bondage. The group was called the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves.