John Adams by McCullough

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Knowledge and virtues were increased and diffused; arts, sciences useful to man, ameliorating their condition, were improved, more than in any period.

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Although she was bolstered up in her bed and could neither walk or stand, she was always calm.

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He had appealed to the clergy to recognize slavery as a sin, and urged all legislators, "ye advocates for American liberty," to work for the liberty of blacks as well.

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For Adams, who had argued emphatically at Paris for full repayment of American debt and had never deviated from that view, American reluctance, or inability, to make good on its obligations was a disgrace and politically a great mistake.

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Contrary to basic military doctrine, Washington had divided his forces between Manhattan and Long Island.

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Jefferson insisted that Freneau and his paper were saving the country from monarchy and persuaded Washington that it would be a grave misstep to impede on freedom of the press.†

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The delights of France are innumerable.

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At first, John Quincy objected, saying he preferred to remain at home and prepare for Harvard, but his mother convinced him of the great opportunity inherent in such an experience. In a heartfelt letter of farewell, she would liken the judicious traveler to a river that increases its volume the farther it flows from its source.

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The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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It was a perfect autumn day that he would mark with a particularly lovely passage in his diary, revealing in a few lines the degree to which the hard-headed, intractable New Englander was, in the expression of the time, a man of "sensibility."†

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"The Psalms of David, in sublimity, beauty, pathos, and originality, or in one word poetry, are superior to all the odes, hymns, and songs in any language," he told Jefferson.

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But at first chance Hamilton commenced to "remonstrate" against the mission to France.

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...he was Salem-born-and-bred, a Harvard graduate, proud, opinionated, self-righteous, and utterly humorless.

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Soon he was filling pages with observations like those on his small scholars and on the arrival of spring, with frequently sensuous responses to nature—to "soft vernal showers," atmosphere full of "ravishing fragrance," air "soft and yielding."

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It was said Jefferson had swindled clients as a young lawyer.

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The King's conduct was called one of "repeated" rather than "unremitting" injuries.