Submitted to us by Bob Inman

Member Bob Inman found the following quote in the book, "John Adams," by Richard McCullough. John Adams wrote this in a letter to Jonathan Sewall about practicing law:

"Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and the lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice?"