John Adams

John Adams

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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
~John Adams

Correspondence between John and Abigail Adams, March-April 1776 (On nature and liberty)
"Discourse on Davila—XV," 1776 (Contrast of natural equality and inequalities)
"Thoughts on Government", 1776 (On republican government)
A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (On man's standing in the order of creation)
Appendix to the Defence of the Constitutions, 1787 (On the good effects of local institutions)
Message to the Senate on the Death of George Washington, December 23, 1799
Letter to Evans, June 8, 1819 (The founding's opposition to slavery)
Letter to H. Niles, February 13, 1818 (On the Revolution as a revolution of ideas and principles)
Letter to James Sullivan, May 26, 1776 (On women and voting rights)
Letter to Zabdiel Adams, June 21, 1776 (On reason, honor, and love of liberty)
Letter to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776

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