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Deborah   Davis
“Booker T. also made a point of giving lengthy interviews to journalists because newspaper articles were solid forums for his ideas. “Do you think the time might ever come, that any circumstance might ever arise, by which a black man might become president of the United States?” the Memphis Commercial Appeal asked him point-blank in a conversation about the future of the black man in America. “I should hope so,” was Booker T.’s reply.”
Deborah Davis, Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation

Gordon S. Wood
“Consequently, as Samuel Chase pointed out in the Maryland ratifying convention, the states would end up “without power, or respect and despised—they will sink into nothing, and be absorbed in the general government.” Some Federalists actually hoped for this to happen—for the states eventually to be reduced to mere administrative units of the national government.”
Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Gordon S. Wood
“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.”
Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Gordon S. Wood
“As William Plumer of New Hampshire complained, “It is impossible to censure measures without condemning men.”
Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Gordon S. Wood
“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”
Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

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