Abigail Adams: Letter to John Quincy Adams - Milestone Documents

Abigail Adams: Letter to John Quincy Adams

( 1780 ) Commentary by Richard Alan Ryerson, Ph.D.
  • “These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.” - Letter to John Quincy Adams, 1780
  • “Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities, which would otherwise lie dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.” - Letter to John Quincy Adams, 1780
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