Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams

Monticello Aug. 1. 16.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. so good night! I will dream on, always fancying that mrs Adams and yourself are by my side marking the progress and the obliquities of ages and countries.

RC (MHi). Published in PTJRS, 10:284–6.
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