Ellen Speicher

“At the same time the cholera epidemic sweeping through Europe struck Paris, bringing not only suffering and death, but also social unrest. As often happens, people began to blame the authorities and supposed carriers of the disease, and there were instances of group violence which sometimes ended in murder, as well as a surge in petty crime. The year 1833 saw strikes and riots in Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Nantes, Avignon and Paris, but they were almost entirely concerned with working conditions and food.8”
― Adam Zamoyski, Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848

“They ticked the boxes of a certain kind of enlightened, educated middle-classness, the love of dresses that were more interesting than pretty, the love of the eclectic, the love of what they were supposed to love. Ifemelu imagined them when they traveled: they would collect unusual things and fill their homes with them, unpolished evidence of their polish.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Hamilton dreaded parties as “the most fatal disease” of popular governments and hoped America could dispense with such groups.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people,” he told Morris. “In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton