[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"book-none-ja62":3,"quote-ja62-en":4,"related-ja62-en":26},null,{"quote":5,"servedLocale":13,"availableLocales":14},{"number":6,"quote":7,"source":8,"image":9,"name":10,"app":11,"hashtag":12},62,"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.","Written in a letter to Benjamin Rush, a Founding Father who may be most famous today as the man who, in 1812, helped reconcile the friendship of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams [April 18th, 1808]","adams","John Adams","TFFF","#Adams","en",[15,13,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25],"de","es","fr","hu","it","ja","ko","nl","pl","pt","ru",[27,31,34,37,40,42],{"number":28,"quote":29,"qtype":30},63,"There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.  If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.","gw",{"number":28,"quote":32,"qtype":33},"I hope therefore that for our own sakes as a part of the people, and for the sake of posterity, we shall act heartily and unanimously in recommending this Constitution (if approved by Congress & confirmed by the Conventions) wherever our influence may extend, and turn our future thoughts & endeavors to the means of having it well administered.","bf",{"number":28,"quote":35,"qtype":36},"I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.","tj",{"number":38,"quote":39,"qtype":20},61,"I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.",{"number":38,"quote":41,"qtype":36},"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.",{"number":38,"quote":43,"qtype":33},"It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats."]