1Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 11 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
...I should like to pass those without intestine broils and commotions, and see a fair prospect of leaving to posterity the blessings of peace and freedom, laws and government. My sentiments are for you alone: you know how the world would judge them, selfish and interested; experience may teach them to their sorrow, that I have not judged amiss....intriguant in the World—a man devoid of every...