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“There were only eight colleges in existence in all the colonies (vs. 5,300 in the country in 2015. The College of William and Mary was the only one located in the South.319”
― Cyrus A. Ansary, George Washington Dealmaker-In-Chief: The Story of How The Father of Our Country Unleashed The Entrepreneurial Spirit in America

“The American colonists were not “a people subjugated by the arms of a conqueror,” it warned, “but of sons sent out to explore and settle a new world….”296”
― Cyrus A. Ansary, George Washington Dealmaker-In-Chief: The Story of How The Father of Our Country Unleashed The Entrepreneurial Spirit in America

“As there was little precedent in history for a leader voluntarily relinquishing power, Washington’s parting words, “Having finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of action” electrified the world and earned universal admiration for him and for the United States in Europe.”
― Cyrus A. Ansary, George Washington Dealmaker-In-Chief: The Story of How The Father of Our Country Unleashed The Entrepreneurial Spirit in America

“With meager resources but inspired military leadership, plus crucial help from France – financial, naval, and troop support on the one hand, and behind-the-scenes diplomatic cover on the other – Americans had triumphed over the world’s mightiest”
― Cyrus A. Ansary, George Washington Dealmaker-In-Chief: The Story of How The Father of Our Country Unleashed The Entrepreneurial Spirit in America

“Some of the contemporary descriptions of debtors’ prisons in America in the eighteenth century were “human slaughterhouses,” “dismal cages,”
― Cyrus A. Ansary, George Washington Dealmaker-In-Chief: The Story of How The Father of Our Country Unleashed The Entrepreneurial Spirit in America

“The poor in twenty-first-century America do not know how well-off they are, relative to the destitute in eras past. Today, a complex network of public and private support systems provide a modicum of relief for those living below the poverty line, making life at least bearable. But pity the poor at the dawn of America’s founding.”
― Cyrus A. Ansary, George Washington Dealmaker-In-Chief: The Story of How The Father of Our Country Unleashed The Entrepreneurial Spirit in America

“The punishment of high treason in general is very solemn and terrible. (1) That the offender be drawn to the gallows…. (2) That he be hanged by the neck, and then cut down alive. (3) That his entrails be taken out and burned, while he is yet alive. (4) That his head be cut off. (5) That his body be divided into four parts. (6) That his head and quarters be at the King’s disposal.”184”
― Cyrus A. Ansary, George Washington Dealmaker-In-Chief: The Story of How The Father of Our Country Unleashed The Entrepreneurial Spirit in America

“On inauguration day, April 30, the people filled the streets leading to Federal Hall. The crowd’s enthusiasm was in no way lessened by the absence of pageantry common to similar celebrations for the Crown of England and other heads of state in the Old World: No purple sashes, gold braids, or plumed helmets appeared anywhere in the President-elect’s entourage. He himself wore a simple dark-brown suit made of broadcloth sent to him as a gift by a mill in Hartford, a pointed demonstration of America’s newfound industrial capability after years of British-imposed prohibition on domestic manufacture. His jacket had steel buttons embossed with eagles, and his only concession to the occasion”
― Cyrus A. Ansary, George Washington Dealmaker-In-Chief: The Story of How The Father of Our Country Unleashed The Entrepreneurial Spirit in America

“This computation would place the value of George Washington’s estate at $34.4 billion in 2017 currency, all of it earned in his business and entrepreneurial activities in the private sector. His service in the public sector contributed nothing to his wealth; on the contrary, it was a distinctly negative factor in his accumulation of assets. For him, it was an immutable policy that public service was not an avenue for the accumulation of wealth.”
― Cyrus A. Ansary, George Washington Dealmaker-In-Chief: The Story of How The Father of Our Country Unleashed The Entrepreneurial Spirit in America