Friday, May 6, 2016

Worth defending.....................


Adams saw for himself the madness of the populist passion that Thomas Paine and the Jacobin sympathizers back home had celebrated.  He felt anew America's great fortune in being able to stand apart from Europe's violence and turmoil.  And he recognized that liberty would mean nothing without the force required to repel predators.

-James Traub,  John Quincy Adams:  Militant Spirit

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