The Federalist Patriot
Founders' Quote Daily
"Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors."-- John Adams (letter to the young men of the Philadelphia,7 May 1798)
I have to admit I had to read this one twice to get it. But that me all the more fond of it.
2 years ago
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