First Family Quotes

“In psychological terms, he was neurotic and she was uncommonly sane. His inevitable eruptions would not threaten the marriage, because she was the center who would always hold.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, First Family: Abigail and John Adams

“They recognized from the beginning that they were a rare match. There were so many topics they could talk about easily and just as many things they did not have to talk about at all.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, First Family: Abigail and John Adams

“If it should be revealed or demonstrated that there is no future state, my advice to every man, woman, and child would be … to take opium.”48”
― Joseph J. Ellis, First Family: Abigail and John Adams