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“The greatest enemy of liberty is fear. When people feel comfortable and well protected, they are naturally expansive and tolerant of one another’s opinions and rights. When they feel threatened, their tolerance shrinks.”
― Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
― Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
― Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
― Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.”
― Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
― Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
“I always try to deal justly with everyone,” she once said. “But if anyone wants to fight me I’ll give him all the fight he wants.”
― Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
― Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
“But the most secure fortunes have always belonged to those with the discipline and foresight to stay out of the fray, those who supply speculators with the tools of their glory or ruin.”
― Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
― Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
“According to the authors, Hetty’s $100 million represented 1/498th of the GNP at the time of her death in 1916. Hetty, the only woman on the list, came in thirty-sixth, five places behind Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and three places ahead of current billionaire-investor Warren Buffett. John D. Rockefeller, whose $1.4 billion in 1937 represented 1/65th of the GNP, was ranked as the wealthiest American of all time.”
― Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
― Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
“On September 26, 1789, members debated a resolution introduced by Aedanus Burke of South Carolina, charging journalists with having “misrepresented these debates in the most glaring deviations from truth,” and with “throwing over the whole proceedings a thick veil of misrepresentation and error.”
― Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
― Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
