John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

English writer Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, used the metaphor of a living puddle examining its own shape, since, to those living creatures, the universe may appear to fit them perfectly ( while in fact, they simply fit the universe perfectly ).

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

Adams wrote, " There are laws of political as well as physical gravitation ; and if an apple severed by its native tree cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union which by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off its bosom.

Chapman and Douglas Adams wrote a pilot for a TV series in 1975, Out of the Trees, but it never went beyond the initial episode.

It contains scripts Chapman wrote with Douglas Adams and others, such as " Our show for Ringo Starr, a. k. a. Goodnight Vienna ".

Adams first learned of the Declaration of Independence from the letters his father wrote his mother from the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

After spending some time with Jay discussing the treaty, Adams wrote home to his father, in support of the emerging treaty because he thought America should stay out of European affairs.

As Secretary of State, he negotiated the Adams – Onís Treaty ( which acquired Florida for the United States ), the Treaty of 1818, and wrote the Monroe Doctrine.

Adams, under Monroe's supervision, wrote the instructions for the ministers ( ambassadors ) to these new countries.

Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ): Adams commented, " Dueling pianos, cooing sirens, Valhalla brass, thwacking bass drums, gospel triads, and a Niagara of cascading flat keys all learned to cohabit as I wrote the piece.

Adams wrote, " in almost all cultures other than the European classical one, the real meaning of the music is in between the notes.

That the Louisiana Purchase was illegal was described pointedly by the historian Henry Adams, who wrote: " The sale of Louisiana to the United States was trebly invalid ; if it were French property, Bonaparte could not constitutionally alienate it without the consent of the Chambers ; if it were Spanish property, he could not alienate it at all ; if Spain had a right of reclamation, his sale was worthless.

" Organization is the secret of victory ," an editor in the Adams camp wrote.

In March 2011, Adams wrote a blog post on the topic of men's rights after men's rights advocates responded in large numbers to his request for readers of his blog to choose his next topic.

Elected Vice President in 1796, when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists, Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts.

After realizing he was no longer in possession of such a grand collection he wrote in a letter to John Adams, " I cannot live without books ".

US President John Adams once wrote to his son, " Terence is remarkable, for good morals, good taste, and good Latin ... His language has simplicity and an elegance that make him proper to be accurately studied as a model.

Samuel Adams articulated the goals of this church when he wrote that Paine aimed " to renovate the age by inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and universal philanthropy ".

In October 1805 John Adams wrote to his friend Benjamin Waterhouse, an American physician and scientist:

As Thomas Jefferson in Paris wrote to John Adams in London, " It really is an assembly of demigods.

District 3 consists of Adams Township, Fall Creek Township, Jackson Township, Washington Township, Wayne Township, White River Township, Arcadia, Atlanta, Cicero, Sheridan and Westfield.

: Adams Center, Adams, Alder Creek, Alexandria Bay, Altmar, Alton, Annsville, Antwerp, Apulia Station, Auburn, Aurora, Ava, Baldwinsville, Barneveld, Beaver Falls, Belleville, Bernhards Bay, Black River, Blossvale, Boonville, Bouckville, Branchport, Brantingham, Brasher Falls, Brewerton, Bridgeport, Bridgewater, Brier Hill, Brookfield, Brownville, Calcium, Camden, Camillus, Canastota, Canton, Cape Vincent, Carthage, Cassville, Castorland, Cato, Cayuga, Cazenovia, Central Square, Chadwicks, Chase Mills, Chaumont, Chippewa Bay, Chittenango, Cicero, Clark Mills, Clay, Clayton, Clayville, Cleveland, Clifton Springs, Clinton, Clockville, Clyde, Cold Brook, Colton, Constableville, Constantia, Copenhagen, Cranberry Lake, Croghan, De Kalb Junction, De Peyster, De Ruyter, Deansboro, Deer River, Deferiet, Delphi Falls, Dewitt, Denmark, Depauville, Dexter, Dolgeville, Dresden, Durhamville, Eagle Bay, Earlville, East Syracuse, East Williamson, Eaton, Edwards, Elbridge, Ellisburg, Erieville, Evans Mills, Fabius, Fair Haven, Fayette, Fayetteville, Felts Mills, Fine, Fishers Landing, Forestport, Fort Drum, Frankfort, Franklin Springs, Fulton, Geneva, Genoa, Georgetown, Glenfield, Gouverneur, Great Bend, Greig, Hailesboro, Hamilton, Hammond, Hannawa Falls, Hannibal, Harrisville, Hastings, Helena, Henderson Harbor, Henderson, Herkimer, Hermon, Heuvelton, Hinckley, Hoffmeister, Holland Patent, Hubbardsville, Ilion, Inlet, Jamesville, Jordan, Jordanville, Keuka Park, King Ferry, Kirkville, Knoxboro, La Fargeville, La Fayette, Lacona, Lawrenceville, Lee Center, Leonardsville, Limerick, Lisbon, Little Falls, Liverpool, Locke, Lorraine, Lowville, Lycoming, Lyons Falls, Lyons, Macedon, Madison, Madrid, Mallory, Manlius, Mannsville, Maple View, Marcellus, Marcy, Marietta, Marion, Martinsburg, Martville, Massena, Mc Connellsville, Memphis, Meridian, Mexico, Middleville, Minetto, Minoa, Mohawk, Montezuma, Moravia, Morristown, Morrisville, Mottville, Munnsville, Natural Bridge, Nedrow, New Hartford, New Haven, New Woodstock, New York Mills, Newark, Newport, Newton Falls, Nicholville, Norfolk, North Bay, North Brookfield, North Lawrence, North Pitcher, North Rose, Norwood, Oaks Corners, Ogdensburg, Old Forge, Oneida, Ontario Center, Ontario, Oriskany, Oriskany Falls, Orwell, Oswegatchie, Oswego, Oxbow, Palmyra, Parish, Parishville, Penn Yan, Pennellville, Peterboro, Phelps, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pierrepont Manor, Plainville, Plessis, Poland, Pompey, Poplar Ridge, Port Byron, Port Gibson, Port Leyden, Potsdam, Preble, Prospect, Pulaski, Pultneyville, Pyrites, Raquette Lake, Raymondville, Red Creek, Redfield, Redwood, Remsen, Rensselaer Falls, Richfield Springs, Richland, Richville, Rodman, Rome, Romulus, Rooseveltown, Rose, Russell, Sackets Harbor, Salisbury Center, Sandy Creek, Sangerfield, Sauquoit, Savannah, Schuyler Lake, Scipio Center, Seneca Castle, Seneca Falls, Sherrill, Skaneateles Falls, Skaneateles, Sodus, Sodus Point, Solsville, Solvay, South Butler, South Colton, South Otselic, Springfield Center, Star Lake, Sterling, Stittville, Stratford, Sylvan Beach, Syracuse, Taberg, Thendara, Theresa, Thousand Island Park, Three Mile Bay, Tully, Turin, Union Springs, Utica, Van Hornesville, Vernon Center, Vernon, Verona Beach, Verona, Waddington, Walworth, Wampsville, Wanakena, Warners, Washington Mills, Waterloo, Watertown, Waterville, Weedsport, Wellesley Island, West Eaton, West Edmeston, West Leyden, West Monroe, West Stockholm, West Winfield, Westdale, Westernville, Westmoreland, Whitesboro, Williamson, Williamstown, Winthrop, Wolcott, Woodgate and Yorkville

`` Having all the guns makes you a big man, don't it, Adams??

In all fairness it must be admitted that Adams made no pretense at being an impartial historian.

For Adams had made up his mind before all the facts were available.

According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.

Aside from the fact that Adams was suing the very man who got him off of death row and out of prison all together, was the fact that Morris himself made absolutely no money on the movie.

President Monroe and all his cabinet, except Adams, believed Jackson had exceeded his instructions.

Adams said slavery contradicted the principles of republicanism, while Calhoun said that slavery was essential to American democracy, for it made all white men equal.

Adams repeatedly spoke out against the " Slave Power ", that is the organized political power of the slave owners who dominated all the southern states and their representation in Congress.

Adams once claimed that originality wasn't an urgent concern for him the way it was necessary for the minimalists, and compared his position to that of Gustav Mahler, J. S. Bach, and Johannes Brahms, who " were standing at the end of an era and were embracing all of the evolutions that occurred over the previous thirty to fifty years.

Adams argued that as in virtually all other posts to his blog, he had made extensive use of satire and sarcasm but that it seemed to have been lost on some readers.

He repealed the Judiciary Act of 1801, which removed nearly all of Adams ' " midnight judges " from office.

In 1833, when Congress rejected Michigan's request for a convention, Adams summed up his opinion on the dispute: " Never in the course of my life have I known a controversy of which all the right was so clearly on one side and all the power so overwhelmingly on the other.

" However, in his haste, Adams ' Secretary of State neglected to have all the commissions delivered.

Article XIV of the Massachusetts Declaration of the Rights written by John Adams and enacted in 1780 as part of the Massachusetts Constitution added the requirement that all searches must be “ reasonable ” and served as the basis for the language of the Fourth Amendment:

However, authors such as Ed Moloney, Peter Taylor, Mark Urban and historian Richard English have all named Adams as part of the IRA leadership since the 1970s.

Indeed, Adams ' position as " Prime Minister " is a gross misnomer, as all of the Federation members were still colonies of Britain.

Jackson accused the Adams campaign, and Henry Clay even more so, of causing her death, saying, " I can and do forgive all my enemies.

Mount Hood, Mount Saint Helens and Mount Adams are all visible from Clark County, and cold winter winds through the Columbia River Gorge often bring freezing rain and a coating of glaze ice or clear ice known locally as a " silver thaw ," especially in southeastern areas of the county closest to the gorge.

On 5 January 1992, Dirk Gently, Richard MacDuff, Dirk's secretary, and the Electric Monk all appeared in the Douglas Adams episode of the British arts documentary series The South Bank Show.

* 1781-Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens and Thomas Jefferson named to assist Adams in peace negotiations ; the Congress of the Confederation insists on independence ; all else is negotiable