“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”
~John Adams letter to his wife Abigail Adams, 26 April 1777.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
John Adams to his posterity
It is the final words of John Adams as this comes to a close that haunt me as the posterity of the Founding Fathers of our nation living in these times:
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