actual quotes from the founding fathers

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I shall, ever esteam it a Happiness to hear of your Welfare, my dear Sir, and a much greater Still to see you, once more in Congress. Your Country is not yet, quite Secure enough, to excuse your Retreat to the Delights of domestic Life. Yet, for the Soul of me, when I attend to my own Feelings, I cannot blame you.

—Adams to Jefferson, Philadelphia May 26. 1777

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The esteem I have for you privately, as well as for your public importance will always render assurances of your health and happiness agreeable.

—Jefferson to Adams, Williamsburgh May 16. 1777.

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So many falshoods have been propagated that nothing now is beleived unless coming from Congress or camp. Our people merely for want of intelligence which they may rely on are become lethargick and insensible of the state they are in.

—Jefferson to Adams, Williamsburgh May 16. 1777.

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No poor Mortals were ever more perplexed than We have been, with three Misfortunes at once, any one of which would have been, alone, sufficient to have distressed Us.

—John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia May 26. 1777

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But whither is senile garrulity leading me? Into politics, of which I have taken final leave. I think little of them, and say less.

— Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, from Monticello Jan 21 1812.

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"I have been disgraced and degraded and I have a right to complain."

- John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, Jun 30 1813