“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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