“The Novanglus Essays” by John Adams


Novanglus is the pseudonym used by John Adams for a series of letters he published just prior to the start of the war. Adams laid out the American position on the natural rights of individual Americans and the rights enjoyed by all colonial governments under British law.

From Novanglus #3 - "The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society.”

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Adams is the most neglected and most underrated of the Founding Fathers. I have always been a great fan of his despite the errors he made late in public life.

Thank you for sharing, Steph.

When Obama takes away the tax deduction for charity, people will feel less charitable.

I don't know that they will stop donating. I do know that they won't feel the same when they do donate their money.

Obama wants this type of friction to exist between people because it helps to breed contempt.

There is nothing about the man that tells me he wants to instill good will between Americans.

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Adams is the most neglected and most underrated of the Founding Fathers. I have always been a great fan of his despite the errors he made late in public life.

Thank you for sharing, Steph.

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When Obama takes away the tax deduction for charity, people will feel less charitable.

I don't know that they will stop donating. I do know that they won't feel the same when they do donate their money.

Obama wants this type of friction to exist between people because it helps to breed contempt.

There is nothing about the man that tells me he wants to instill good will between Americans.

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