Adams’ message to posterity on the cost of freedom
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a …
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John Adams was pessimistic about the survival of democracy
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit …
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Lincoln: the only president without a religion
It is ironic that the man widely regarded as the most saintly of US presidents never joined a Christian church – a …
A brief history of Abraham Lincoln
What follows is a brief history of Abraham Lincoln, a humble effort to objectively summarise the life of an extraordinary and complex …