John adams Quote by Charles C. Mann

“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

And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more…

— John F. Kennedy

“Some talked,some wrote, and some fought to promote and establish it, but you, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all”

— Benjamin Rush

“Carl Bridenbaugh’s study of colonial cities, Cities in the Wilderness, reveals a clear-cut class system. He finds: The leaders of early Boston were gentlemen…

— Howard Zinn

[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

American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic. . .…

— Dumas Malone

“It’s telling that Americans know and celebrate Plymouth but Jamestown hardly at all. The myth we’ve constructed says that the first nonnative new Americans…

— Kurt Andersen

“The Pilgrims had come to America not to conquer a continent but to re-create their modest communities in Scrooby and in Leiden. When they…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in is haunted…

— Sarah Vowell

“in their supposed innocence of and opposition to empire, have become the mythic progenitors of the United States—almost as improbably as Solomon was of…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to…

— Anonymous

“some British settlers of colonial America carried across the sea Puritan, biblical, scientific, and Aristotelian rationalizations of slavery and human hierarchy.”

— Ibram X. Kendi