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“Adams lay peacefully, his mind clear, by all signs. Then late in the afternoon, according to several who were present in the room, he…

— David McCullough

“Classing Jefferson with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, both of whom were also reluctant to speak at length in public, Adams said, “A public…

— Jon Meacham

“In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, the aging John Adams recalled the Massachusetts of his youth as a multiracial society. “Aaron Pomham the Priest…

— Charles C. Mann

“[John] Adams saw clearly that politics is the indispensable foundation for things elegant and beautiful. First and above all else, you must secure life,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“for politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as…

— Gordon S. Wood

According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must…

— David McCullough

Deeply versed in history, [John Adams] said over and over that America had no special providence, no special role in history, that Americans were…

— Gordon S. Wood

[John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in Europe cemented…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Now be it known, That I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty do, by…

— John Adams

Again and again [Tomas] Jefferson deftly sidesteps many of [John] Adams's often provocative remarks. They both felt the correspondence, which was written for posterity,…

— Gordon S. Wood

“America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and…

— Jon Meacham