Quotes About Ron Chernow

I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

The prolific Hamilton was now writing pseudonymous commentaries on his own pseudonymous essays.

His eloquence . . . seemed to require opposition to give it its full force.

He also saw human nature as insatiably curious and reserved his highest praise for minds that created "schemes or systems of truth."11

task of government was not to stop selfish striving—a hopeless task—but to harness it for the public good.

In closing, Washington referred to the character of Jesus, "the Divine author of our blessed religion.

The Federalist has been extolled as both a literary and political masterpiece. Theodore Roosevelt commented "that it is on the whole the greatest book" dealing with practical politics.

if Clinton was taken prisoner "it would be our misfortune, since the British government could not find another commander so incompetent to send in his place.

Even amid an insurrection that he supported, he fretted about the damage to constituted authority and worried about mob rule. Like

Emergencies seemed to fortify his confidence even as they introduced doubt or terror in others.

He was a much less clever monopolist than his mentor.

giving him more generous sympathy than he received in return

giving him more generous sympathy than he received in return, although the relationship would become somewhat more equal toward the end of Pierpont's life.

However, he was persistent, which pleased or displeased people according to taste.

Self-sufficiency and a contempt of the science and experience of others are too prevailing traits of character in this country," he wailed to John Jay.

Till the very end, he saw the producers' outrage against him as shot through with envy and hypocrisy.

The federal government had captured forever the bulk of American taxing power.

He also advocated Archbold's ouster, but Senior thought it impossible to fire Archbold in the midst of the antitrust suit.

That spring, Gates had survived a serious illness, awakening his curiosity about American medicine.

and personally audited the books each New Year's Day.

For the record, he professed great respect for Isaac Hewitt, twenty-five years his senior, but he was much more caustic in private, referring to him as a "disgruntled" man, forever entangled in litigation.

To purify himself of all business ties, Junior also retired at the same time from U.S. Steel.

James Clark later told Ida Tarbell that he sold out only from fear of the SIC contract.

Frank was the last person she had expected to volunteer as a source.