Quotes About History

His dislike of Jews may have been sharpened by dealings with the Rothschilds.

On April 16, 1789, George Washington departed from Mount Vernon on an eight-day journey to New York that blossomed into a national celebration.

In time, it would become hard to disentangle the House of Morgan from various aspects of Anglo-American policy.

At the January 11, 1910, board meeting, he quietly retired as a director of Standard Oil:

memories of Valley Forge and Morristown would powerfully affect the future political agendas of both Washington and Hamilton, who had to grapple with the defects of a weak central government

John Adams said that if Washington "was not the greatest president, he was the best actor of the presidency we have ever had.

As early as 1775, Philadelphia Quakers had launched the world's first antislavery society, followed by others in the north and south.

By 1784, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut had outlawed slavery or passed laws for its gradual extinction

When Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, slaves constituted 40 percent of the population of his home state, Virginia.

Tens of thousands of onlookers gaped in amazement as the shattered British troops marched out of Yorktown and, to the tune of an old English ballad, "The World Turned Upside Down

The Negro will disappear from the field of national politics...Henceforth the nation, as a nation, will have nothing more to do with him. (The Nation, progressive periodical of our day, published demeaning, racist opinions of Black Americans during Reconstruction (ie pg. 854 softcover)

In a footnote, Lawson further conceded that Rockefeller never put a dime into the Amalgamated flotation.

Washington was then unanimously elected president of the convention.

To believe America able to withstand England is a dreadful infatuation.

From his reading of history, Hamilton concluded a few essays later that war was an inescapable fact of life: "the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace."54

Precisely because he lost the antitrust suit, Rockefeller was converted from a mere millionaire, with an estimated net worth of $300 million in 1911, into something just short of history's first billionaire.

For many years, the Rothschilds, the Nobels, and Standard Oil circled around each other, each trying to forge links with a second party to isolate the third.

The comment smacked of aristocratic disdain for the self-made man. In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton.

During one ghastly period in 1779, the continental dollar shed half its value in three weeks.

Washington had become so accustomed to slavery that the bizarre began to seem normal.

Almost two thousand New Yorkers died, and a fresh potter's field was consecrated in what is now Greenwich Village.

Mary Surratt, who ran a boardinghouse where Booth colluded with other conspirators, went down in historical annals as the first woman ever executed by the federal government.

At the start of 1799, both of the banks in New York City happened to be the brainchildren of Alexander Hamilton: the Bank of New York and the local branch of the Bank of the United States.

Few figures in American History have aroused such visceral love or loathing as Alexander Hamilton.