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Germaine 2022-03-19 09:01:07
"Are you in favor of using Brutal and Illegal Acts to achieve political...
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Bettie 2022-03-18 09:01:06
Dr. Franklin turned on...
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Lola 2022-03-18 09:01:06
Tribute to Mrs. Adams~~~ The woman behind the great...
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Alysson 2022-03-17 09:01:06
"I have to study politics and war, so that my sons may have the freedom to study mathematics and philosophy; my sons should study mathematics, philosophy, geography, natural history, shipbuilding, navigation, trade, and agriculture. In this way Only then can their children have the right to learn painting, poetry, music, architecture, sculpture, knitting and porcelain...
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Ivah 2022-03-17 09:01:06
I like this kind of down-to-earth historical...
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Hosea 2022-03-16 09:01:06
Those who believe that human beings are equal and free should watch this film. Understand that freedom is hard to come...
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Gracie 2022-03-16 09:01:06
Only a kingdom built on faith can it be called...
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Belle 2022-03-15 09:01:06
It seems that I am not...
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Viviane 2022-03-15 09:01:06
Chicken, duck and horseshoe ~ David Moss is serious and...
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Erling 2022-03-14 14:12:26
In the true history of the founding of the United States, there is no unity, rallying arms, and the same hatred of the enemy, but only forming cliques, intrigues, and swaying from side to side. Even these founding fathers were not to be seen, they were scolded everywhere, and the ending was "terrible." This is the history of the founding of a nation in the turmoil of war. The beautification is slavery. Just imagine every farmer who oppresses slaves, then the glory will be...
John Adams Comments
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Brook 2022-01-13 08:02:38
Correspondence between Abigail and John
John and communication
Correspondence with John
from "American Reader"
(American Memory Collection, Library of Congress)
do not let their husbands in power so unlimited. Remember, all men will become tyrants whenever possible.
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Stanford 2022-03-21 09:02:53
The Making of A Nation
2008, the US election year. The miniseries at the beginning of the year seemed to be warming up for the general election. The whole play focuses on the personal experience and family of John Adams, showing American independence, the founding of the United States, and the internal and foreign...
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John Adams: I have seen a queen of France with 18 million livres of diamonds on her person, but I declare that all the charms of her face and figure added to all the glitter of her jewels did not impress me as much as that little shrub right there. Now your mother always said that I never delighted enough in the mundane, but now I find that if I look at even the smallest thing my imagination begins to roam the Milky Way!
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John Dickinson: One colony cannot be allowed to take its sister colonies headlong into the maelstrom of war. Parliament will be eager to call a halt to hostilities, as are we. They will seek conciliation. We must offer them an olive branch. I move this assembly consider a humble and dutiful petition be dispatched to his Majesty, one that includes a plain statement that the colony desires immediate negotiation and accommodation of these unhappy disputes, and that we are willing to enter into measures to achieve that reconciliation.
John Adams: The time for negotiation is past. The actions of the British army at Lexington and Concord speak plainly enough. If we wish to regain our natural-born rights as Englishmen then we must fight for them.
John Dickinson: I have looked for our rights in the laws of nature and can find them only in the laws of political society. I have looked for our rights in the constitution of the English government and found them there! Our rights have been violated, Mr. Adams, that is beyond dispute. We must provide a plan to convince Parliament to restore those rights! Do we wish to become aliens to the mother country? No, gentlemen, we must come to terms with the mother country. No doubt the same ship which carries forth our list of grievances will bring back their redress.
John Adams: Mr. Dickinson. My wife and young children live on the main road to Boston, fewer than five miles from the full might of the British Empire. Should they sit and wait for Gage and his savages to rob them of their home, their possessions, their very lives? No, sir! Powder and artillery are the surest and most infallible conciliatory measures we can adopt!
John Dickinson: If you explode the possibility of peace, Mr. Adams, and I tell you now, you will have blood on your hands!
John Adams: And I tell you, Mr. Dickinson, that to hold out an olive branch to Britain is a measure of gross imbecility.
John Dickinson: If you New England men continue to oppose our measures of reconciliation, you will leave us no choice but to break off from you entirely and carry on the opposition in our own way.
John Adams: I sit in judgment of no man's religion, Mr. Dickinson, but your Quaker sensibilities do us a gross disservice, sir. It is one thing to turn the other cheek, but to lie down in the ground like a snake and crawl toward the seat of power in abject surrender, well, that is quite another thing, sir. And I have no stomach for it, sir! No stomach at all!
John Dickinson: We will exhaust all peaceful approaches, Mr. Adams. And we will do it with or without the approbation of you and your Boston insurrectionists!
