John_Quincy_Adams

John Quincy Adams John Adams Among all the founders of the American republic in the first rank of importance, John Adams enjoyed the fewest moments of popularity during his lifetime and, until recently, has had the least public attention and acclaim. Except by sufferance of being second on the roll of Presidents, his has never been a household name in the United States. A tally would show far fewer towns, counties, schools, mountains, and the like named for him than for Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, or perhaps some others. Almost any page of the present biography of John Adams in his own words will show that he is one of the most irresistibly quotable of writers: and yet for a century and more after his death, the standard books of quotations either left him out or gave him the scantiest sort of treatment. They do only a little better today, but the trend is upward. The twenty-five years that followed Adams’s retirement from public office by adams, never, john, been, years, wish, washington, show, public, one, least, american, yet, wrote, written, writers, wounded, words, upward, upon, until, united, twenty-five, trend, treatment, transmit, towns, today, thought, tally, surprise, sufferance, success, subordinate, students