Jeffrey Root

“posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.”
― Abigail Adams

“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women. ”
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”
― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife