John Adams

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.