“I am not afraid to appeal to the nation at large, to posterity, and still less to that Being Who sees Himself our motives, Who will judge us from His own knowledge of them.”

Writings (1904), Vol. XI, p. 44, to Abigail Adams on July 22, 1804.
1800s

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