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Tag Archives: Abigail Adams
John Adams as Vice-President
JOHN ADAMS, on being Vice President, in a letter to Abigail: My country in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Abigail Adams on George Washington
ABIGAIL ADAMS, on George Washington (lifting a quote Shakespeare): Take his character all together, and we shall not look upon his like again.
Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 1786
ABIGAIL ADAMS, in a cautionary letter to her genius future-president son, John Quincy Adams, 1786, during his first semester at Harvard. Abigail had heard through the grapevine that her son could be “a little too decisive and tenacious” in his … Continue reading
Thomas Jefferson: “I like a little rebellion now and then”
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Abigail Adams, 1787, who had written to him, concerned about mob violence in Massachusetts. He responded: The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept … Continue reading
John Adams to Abigail, July 3, 1776
JOHN ADAMS, in a July 3, 1776 letter to Abigail, after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 2: The Delay of this Declaration to this Time, has many great Advantages attending it. The Hopes of Reconciliation, … Continue reading
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Abigail Adams on George Washington
ABIGAIL ADAMS, on first meeting Washington in 1774, wrote to John Adams: You had prepared me to entertain a favorable opinion of him, but I thought the half was not told me. Dignity with ease and complacency, the gentleman and … Continue reading
John Adams, 1776 “government under the people…”
JOHN ADAMS, letter to Abigail, May 1776: I have reasons to believe that no colony which shall assume a government under the people, will give it up.
Recommended Reading: Non-fiction
NONFICTION 1. The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy, by Robert Kaplan I’ve read all of Kaplan’s stuff, but this one is my favorite. He starts his … Continue reading
“I never shall shine, ’til some animating occasion calls forth all my powers.” – John Adams
— “Fire them with ambition to be useful.” — John to Abigal, in regards to raising their children — “It is my destiny to dig treasures with my own fingers.” — John Adams — “If the way to do good … Continue reading