Great Necessities Call Out Great Virtues.

These Are The Times In Which A Genius Would Wish To Live. It Is Not In The Still Calm Of Life, Or The Repose Of A Pacific Station, That Great Characters Are Formed. The Habits Of A Vigorous Mind Are Formed In Contending With Difficulties. Great Necessities Call Out Great Virtues. When A Mind Is Raised, And Animated By Scenes That Engage The Heart, Then Those Qualities Which Would Otherwise Lay Dormant, Wake Into Life And Form The Character Of The Hero And The Statesman.

If Particular Care And Attention Is Not Paid To The Ladies, We Are Determined To Foment A Rebellion, And Will Not Hold Ourselves Bound By Any Laws In Which We Have No Voice, Or Representation.

How Difficult The Task To Quench The Fire And The Pride Of Private Ambition, And To Sacrifice Ourselves And All Our Hopes And Expectations To The Public Weal! How Few Have Souls Capable Of So Noble An Undertaking!

It Is To Me A Most Affecting Thing To Hear Myself Prayed For, In Particular As I Do Every Day In The Week, And Disposes Me To Bear With More Composure, Some Disagreeable Circumstances That Attend My Situation.

When He Is Wounded, I Bleed. {page 262 Of John Adams}