John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1815-08-24) to Thomas Jefferson
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As to the history of the Revolution, my Ideas may be peculiar, perhaps Singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The War? That was no part of the Revolution; it was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People, and this…
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"Tory feelings[,] newspapers & pamphlets supported by foreign[ers,] mercantile credit" - John Adams accounts for the opposition in the U.S.A. to #war
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-5952
See also: A U.S. officer's description of the favour shown to the British in New England
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269608 (Pg. 1, centre column)
John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1825-01-23) to Thomas Jefferson
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Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws. Complaining about laws, even in America, that punish people for "blasphemy" in doubting elements of the Bible.
John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas Jefferson
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Our Passions, Ambition, Avarice, Love, Resentment &c possess so much metaphysical Subtilty and so much overpowering Eloquence, that they insinuate themselves into the Understanding and the Conscience and convert both to their Party. And I may be deceived as much as any of them, when I Say, that Power must…