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“I am sure that I really know many, many things, and none more surely than that I love you with all my heart, and pray for the continuance of your life until you shall be tired of it yourself.” - Thomas Jefferson

“Tried myself, in the school of affliction, by the loss of every form of connection which can rive the human heart, I know well, and feel what you have lost, what you have suffered, are suffering, and have yet to endure. The same trials have taught me that, for ills so immeasurable, time and silence are
the only medecines.” - Thomas Jefferson

“Truth, must be more respected than it ever has been, before, any great Improvement can be expected in the Condition of Mankind.”

“Power always thinks it has a great Soul, and vast Views, beyond the Comprehension of the Weak; and that it is doing God’s Service, when it is violating all his Laws.” - John Adams

“The doctrines which flowed from the lips of Jesus himself are within the comprehension of a child; but thousands of volumes have not yet explained
the Platonisms engrafted on them: and for this obvious reason that nonsense can never be explained.” - Thomas Jefferson

my boy is big mad about Plato’s Republic, and I am here for it.

“I have examined all, as well as my narrow Sphere, my streightened means and my busy Life would allow me; and the result is, that the Bible is the best book in the World.” - John Adams

“We acted in perfect harmony thro' a long and perilous contest for our liberty and independance. A constitution has been acquired which, tho neither of us think perfect, yet both consider as competent to render our fellow-citizens the happiest and the securest on whom the sun has ever shone. If we do not think exactly alike as to it's imperfections, it matters little to our country which…” - Thomas Jefferson

“I have ever found time and silence the only medecine, and these but assuage, they never can suppress, the deep-drawn sigh which recollection for ever brings up, until recollection and life are extinguished together.” - Thomas Jefferson

“You and I ought not to die, before We have explained ourselves to each other.” - John Adams

“The real terrors of both Parties have always been, and now are, the fear that they shall loose the Elections and consequently the Loaves and
Fishes; and that their Antagonists will obtain them. Both parties have excited artificial Terrors…” - John Adams

“The human Mind is awake: Let it not Sleep. Let it however consider. Let it think, Let it pause.” - John Adams