In the months leading up to the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams, who was a delegate to the Continental Congress i...

“…I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.—I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not ...

In early May, 1776, Congressman John Adams saw daily signs everywhere that the movement toward independence “rolls in upon Us . . . like ...

The formal resolution declaring political independence from Great Britain had been submitted to the Continental Congress on June 7 th ...

"[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness....

“Alexander Hamilton, original federalist and founding father of the U.S. Constitution ...remains perhaps the most underestimated constit...

“In Flanders Fields” In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky ...