Thursday, April 26, 2012

Quote of the Day (John Adams, on His Sacrifices on Behalf of Freedom)


“Is it not intollerable, that the opening Spring, which I should enjoy with my Wife and Children upon my little Farm, should pass away, and laugh at me, for labouring, Day after Day, and Month after Month, in a Conclave [i.e., the Continental Congress], Where neither Taste, nor Fancy, nor Reason, nor Passion, nor Appetite can be gratified?

“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. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”—John Adams, letter to wife Abigail Adams, April 26, 1777

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