The Great Upheaval Quotes

“(Jefferson) was deeply suspicious of Hamilton's assumption plan (by which the nation would assume responsibility for the states' individual war debts.) He feared this was yet another example of the avaricious hand of the unscrupulous money powers, the sprawling, hydra-headed creature associated with banks, stock markets and devious speculators, especially in New York, Boston, and the City of London, not to mention unrepublican, unAmerican attitudes of all kinds - everything he despised.”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

“In a country already hotly divided, John Adams would subsequently become the second president, and by 1800, the young republic would do something quite unique in the annals of history: peacefully transfer power from one political party to the next,”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“A king had to die so a republic could live.”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“The years of hunger were terrible: Peasants might be forced to sell all that they owned, and cannibalism was not unknown. There were even tales of starving men who tore hanged bodies from the gallows, frantic to eat the raw flesh while it was still warm.”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“enervated”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“Alexis de Tocqueville.”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“each nation and all peoples must rely on their collective history, their own collective character, and their own collective destiny.”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“Hunger bred anger, anger bred suspicion, suspicion bred crowds, and crowds bred mobs.”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“Phillis Wheatley,”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“I have not yet begun to fight,”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“sansculottes”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“Does the world not recognize that we are destined to be a great power?”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“Tristram Shandy”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“Thus the cerebral footings were laid. Voltaire preferred intellectual liberty and enlightened despotism. Montesquieu wanted limited monarchy and a separation of political powers. Rousseau dreamed of an ideal republican commonwealth.”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“Semiramis.”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“peripatetic”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“miasma”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“c’est moi”—“the state is myself,”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval

“peine forte et dure”
― Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval