Here's a wonderfully warm and thoughtful quote from that crusty and cranky old curmudgeon of an American Founding Father, John Adams. To his son (and later President) John Quincy, he wrote: "I have been called lately to weep in the chamber of my birth over the remains of a beautiful baby of your brother's, less than a year old. . . . Why have I been preserved at more than three quarters of a century, and why was that fair flower blasted so soon, are questions we are not permitted to ask."
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
JOHN ADAMS
Here's a wonderfully warm and thoughtful quote from that crusty and cranky old curmudgeon of an American Founding Father, John Adams. To his son (and later President) John Quincy, he wrote: "I have been called lately to weep in the chamber of my birth over the remains of a beautiful baby of your brother's, less than a year old. . . . Why have I been preserved at more than three quarters of a century, and why was that fair flower blasted so soon, are questions we are not permitted to ask."
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