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1John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 12 April 1794 (Adams Papers)
...by such means, and by serving so essentially the cause of Humanity and of Liberty, as he has done, I shall hardly breathe a sigh upon seeing any of the political Phaeton’s leap at one bound into the Chariot of the Sun, to set the world on fire, and then be hurl’d to destruction for their pains.
2To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 31 August 1795 (Adams Papers)
. The double legislature is as has been said like two horses pulling the chariot in opposite directions. With all their pulling the chariot moves not an inch