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understanding that the prospect of spacious accommodations might prove more persuasive than the most powerful argument in debate.
“These critics thought that the general commercialization of English life, including the rise of trading companies, banks, stock markets, speculators, and new moneyed men, had undermined traditional values and threatened England with ruin. The monarchy and its minions had used patronage, the national debt, and the Bank of England to corrupt the society, including the House of Commons, and to build up the executive bureaucracy at the expense of the people’s liberties, usually for the purpose of waging war.”
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
“There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment”
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“As William Plumer of New Hampshire complained, “It is impossible to censure measures without condemning men.”
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
“Hamilton used the sinking fund to maintain the confidence of creditors in the government’s securities; he had no intention of paying off the outstanding principal of the debt. Retiring the debt would only destroy its usefulness as money and as a means of attaching investors to the federal government.”
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
“173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one,” wrote Jefferson in 1785 in his Notes on the State of Virginia. “An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.”31”
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
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