The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

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.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams Quotes