John Adams Quotes
This famous quotation was only partly original. The most famous part, "Facts are stubborn things" was earlier used by the French Writer, Alain René Le Sage in Gil Blas
This was the origin of the first part of John Adams famous quoation {310967}
No one had a majority of the Electoral College and the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. Henry Clay was the Speaker of the House, and had a grudge against Jackson. He convinced several of the State congressional delegations to vote for John Quincy Adams, and when Adams was President, he made Clay the Secretary of State, then the most powerful cabinet position. Hence Jackson’s characterization.
Upon learning that his son, John Quincy Adams, had been chosen President of the United States, the former President remarked:
The treaty was The Treaty of Paris which ended the Revolutionary War.
Hayes was a Civil Service reformer. After the presidency of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and subsequent Presidents fired large numbers of public servants—even minor poitions and replaced them with supporters. Hayes stopped that practice and initiated civil servce reform.
Today, most Americans know little of Samuel Adams but see John Adams as a much larger and more important figure. But for the American Patriots fighting the Revolution, it was Sam Adams who made the most outstanding contributions to the political strategy and leadership.
Adams, a great patriot, was a terrible diplomat. He and Franklin were both members of the American mission to France, but Adams detested the French and they sensed that and returned the favor. When the French Foreign Minister was thinking of having Adams recalled, Franklin tried to explain the nature of their relationship. In actuality, it was barely civil, and a 3rd member of the mission, Lee, positively detested Franklin who was one of the best known celebrities in France. No one knew who Lee and Adams were, neither was as eloquent as Franklin and neither had the confidence of the French King and his ministers that Franklin did.
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier. The Barbary Pirates had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom.
As a result was in 1799 he was indicted, convicted, and fined $480 and sentenced to 18 months in jail. In 1801, newly elected President Thomas Jefferson pardoned Brown along with all violators of the act.
