Michael Stewart

“Finally the job was done—a canal 363 miles long, 4 feet deep, 28 feet wide at the bottom and 40 at the top, with 83 locks lifting boats to a height of almost 600 feet, and costing over $7 million. Such a feat called for celebration, and the New Yorkers did not fail the occasion. On a morning late in October 1825 the canalboat Seneca Chief nosed into the canal at Buffalo carrying two kegs of the “pure water of Lake Erie,” Governor Clinton and other dignitaries, and a”
― James MacGregor Burns, The Vineyard of Liberty, 1787–1863

“proudly showed Anson his official timepiece. He carried it in a leather pouch strapped to his chest, and explained that it was regulated in London to avoid the confusion that differences in local time caused.”
― David McDine, THE COMPLETE LIEUTENANT OLIVER ANSON NAVAL THRILLERS BOOKS 1–4 four gripping historical naval adventures

“He trusts his temperament. Wanting a universe that suits it, he believes in any representation of the universe that does suit it. He feels men of opposite temper to be out of key with the world's character, and in his heart considers them incompetent and 'not in it,' in the philosophic business, even tho they may far excel him in dialectical ability.”
― William James, Pragmatism

“began with a dire prediction: someday, when Americans would be asked what had become “of the flower of their crop, and the rich produce of their farms,” they would answer as had the Man of La Mancha, “The Steward of my Lord has seized and sent it to Madrid,’ ” or more literally, tax collectors of the new national government had seized that produce and transmitted it to the “Federal City.”
― James MacGregor Burns, The Vineyard of Liberty, 1787–1863