"Admire and adore the Author of teh telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend."

-- John Adams

"The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...... Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.... So questions and so answers your affectionate grandfather."

-- John Adams

This evening I've finished McCoullough's book on John Adams. It was a great read. I recommend it as a must read for anyone. Adams and his wife both wrote so often and so candidly that is possible to understand them on a very personal level. Adams played a central role in the revolution and in the first quarter century of American politics. To learn from Adams it to get the inside picture of a true patriot........
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