Quotes from David McCullough, John Adams

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.