Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams Quotes

“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.”
― John Adams, Familiar Letters of John Adams & His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution

“But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? How has it happened that all the fine arts, architecture, painting, sculpture, statuary, music, poetry, and oratory, have been prostituted, from the creation of the world, to the sordid and detestable purposes of superstition and fraud?

[Letter to judge F.A. Van der Kamp, December 27, 1816.]”
― John Adams, Familiar Letters of John Adams & His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution