If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You've got to become them."(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
