Quote of the Day for 2016-07-04, Independence Day

"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a Theatrical Show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the Glory of it."

— John Adams (1735-1826) Letter to Benjamin Rush (June 11, 1811)

Don't Sign That Declaration, Gentlemen! You'll Hurt Business! by Samuel D. Ehrhart, after John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence, from Puck (March 4, 1908)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-23

"To the end, it may be a government of laws and not of men."

— John Adams (1735-1826) Constitution of Massachusetts, part 1, article 30 (1780)

Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney during a farewell ceremony for Rumsfeld at the Pentagon (December 15, 2006) Photograph by Stefan Zaklin