Letter from John Adams to Mercy Warren (1776)
Pray Madam, are you for an American Monarchy or Republic? Monarchy is the genteelest and most fashionable Government, and I dont know why the Ladies ought not to consult Elegance
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Pray Madam, are you for an American Monarchy or Republic? Monarchy is the genteelest and most fashionable Government, and I dont know why the Ladies ought not to consult Elegance
Yesterday, the greatest question was decided, which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one
You inquire why so young a man as Mr. Jefferson was placed at the head of the Committee for preparing a Declaration of Independence, I answer; It was the Frankfort
President’s Speech, 6th Cong., 2nd sess., Annals of Congress, H724. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=010/llac010.db&recNum=359 Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: Immediately after the adjournment of Congress at their last
President’s Speech, 6th Cong., 1st sess., Annals of Congress, H188. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=010/llac010.db&recNum=91 Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: It is with peculiar satisfaction that I meet the
President’s Speech, 5th Cong., 3rd sess., Annals of Congress, H2420. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=009/llac009.db&recNum=3 Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: While with reverence and resignation we contemplate the dispensations
President’s Speech, 5th Cong., 2nd sess., Annals of Congress, H630. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=007/llac007.db&recNum=310 Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: I was for some time apprehensive that it
John Adams, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/200429 WHEN it was first perceived, in early times, that no middle course for
Sir, — You are pleased to charge the colonists with ignorance of the British constitution; but let me tell you there is not ever a son of liberty among them
The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe. And when and where are they to