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By John Adams
All sober enquirers after truth, ancient and modern, Pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity consists in virtue.
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- Thoughts on Government (Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1776), 1776 · Thoughts on Government, 1776 pamphlet, p. 5
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- Internet Archive (John Carter Brown Library scan of the 1776 Dunlap pamphlet)
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From Thoughts on Government, a letter Adams wrote in 1776 to a friend, printed as an anonymous pamphlet in Philadelphia by John Dunlap in 1776. The scan's catalog notes the letter was addressed to George Wythe of Virginia.