"It is really fortunate for human nature, that there is a country, where the oppressed of all nations may find a secure asylum."

"I know of no subject," Bingham wrote at the close of an analysis that was at once brilliant and prophetic, "that is so little understood or has been less profoundly examined by the legislative characters of America, than that of Finance - and yet there is no one that so deeply involves the essential interests of the country."

An underworld of criminals from Marseilles, Genoa, Sicily, and Greece was drifting to Paris to domminate the street mobs.

In 1798, these men looked on Revolutionary France and Napoleon with much the same revulsion and anger that men of good will in the fourth anf fifth decades of the twentieth century looked on Germany and Hitler, or Soviet Russia and Stalin, and for many of the same reasons.

We are irresistibly pleased with them, because they possess the happy Art of making us pleased with ourselves; their education is of a higher Cast, and by great cultivation they procure a happy variety of Genius, which frms their Conversation, to please either the Fop, or the Philosopher.