Popular Approval Quotes
Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared, that is, by the established power structures. Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Theodore Roosevelt and Taft were both strong advocates of an expanded Federal government much to the distress of the conservative wing of their Republican party. However, they also had strong public support for expanding the size and scope of the national government. It was not the left wing socialists who expanded the Federal government. It was the Republican administrations with a Republican control of both houses of Congress.
When Aaron Burr—with the aid of Tammany Hall—won political control of New York City from Alexander Hamilton and the moneyed aristocracy, Hamilton was greatly impressed by the new methods: carriages for the sick and infirm and elderly on election day, for example. He concluded that his own party, the Federalists:
