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By John Adams
Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.
- Source
- John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 April 1777, April 26, 1777 · Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 2, pp. 223-224
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- Founders Online, National Archives (Adams Papers)
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From a letter John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail on the evening of April 26, 1777. He wrote it frustrated that the Massachusetts troops had not yet arrived. These are the last three sentences of the letter.