1John Quincy Adams to Charles Adams, 30 December 1795 (Adams Papers)
...have requested you to wait for a favorable state of exchange, to draw according to my last authority; but I did not mean to lay you under any particular restraint. I leave all these circumstances to your own discretion, trusting that you will take no step without due reflection; with the particular consideration, that I wish to have the money as much as possible at command, in case my own...all
2To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 27 June 1795 (Adams Papers)
I received two or three days since your favours of March 26. April 21. and 26. all together, and I know not how to express the pleasure they gave me. The first and dearest of all my wishes is personally to give satisfaction and obtain the approbation of my parents, and in a public capacity to justify the confidence placed in me by the appointment I now hold. This wish is in both parts so...
3To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 1 April 1795 (Adams Papers)
...sufferers by the Stadholders victory in 1787, have continued and still continue amid the great political changes now taking place in their Country. One article of creed at the present day is, that all the dissensions in the Republic heretofore, have merely been Struggles for power and Office, between two Cabals; a wicked faction with Orange, and a wicked faction without. That both have been...
4To John Adams from William Cunningham, 18 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
So much time has elapsed since the date of my letter in February, that I have dismissed all expectations of an answer....in the presence of his court to abash the overgrown courtiers who looked disdainfully on the inferiority of his stature? You must have swelled beyond the thought of yourself and of your sons, when you aim’d the stroke at the stature of Hamilton. I think that neither of...
5From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 4 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
...the crown of Great Britain were made, the people, who now compose the United States of America, were a part of the English nation; as such, allies of the republic, and parties to those treaties; entitled to all their benefits, and submitting cheerfully to all their obligations....of Englishmen, and reducing them to the worst of all forms of government, starving the people by...
6From Thomas Jefferson to William Drayton, 30 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...them requiring water, and three growing on highlands. The rice of Carolina is said to have come from Madagascar, and DePoivre tells us it is the white rice which is cultivated there. This favors the probability of it’s being of a different species originally from that of Piedmont, and time, culture and climate may have made it still more different. Under this idea I thought it would be well...
7To Alexander Hamilton from James Wilkinson, 6 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The attempt to dispossess a respectable Enemy, once in possession of our Western or Northern Frontier, will be found expensive, (beyond Calculation) difficult in the extreme, and at best of doubtful issue. For while He may derive powerful Aids, from the unconquerable animosities of the Savages, and the versatility of our own Erratics, we shall be exposed to... ...probabilities at......protect...
8From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 20 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
for from all the accounts we receive from thence the affairs of the Southern States seem to be so exceedingly disordered, and their resources so much exhausted, that whatever should be undertaken there, must chiefly depend on the means carried from......either not be undertaken at all, or being undertaken, may fail—I am perswaded Congress are not inattentive to the present State of the Army,...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 26 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
...July last, and thank you for the trouble you were kind enough to take to inform yourself of, and let me know, the fate of my letter to the President:—I should not have written to him at all, had I known at the time that you had accepted the American Ministry....perhaps Poles, into Livonia, and White Russia, and above all of some subsequent perfidy in the King of Sweden; she still held a...
10From James Madison to James Monroe, 20 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
...and cogent considerations which forbid the practice of its cruizers in visiting and impressing the crews of our vessels, covered
by an independant flag, and guarded by the laws of the high seas, which ought to be sacred with all nations...., their liberty, their lives, every thing in a word that is dearest to the human heart, to the capricious or interested sentences which may be...