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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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44 |
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AUTHOR:
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John Adams (1735–1826) |
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QUOTATION:
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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six—the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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JOHN ADAMS, letter to Abigail Adams, June 11/June 17, 1775.—Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, vol. 1, p. 216 (1963). |
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SUBJECTS:
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America |
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