Oh, Posterity!

Oh Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven, that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.

--John Adams, April 26, 1777.



Amidst the political divisions that exist today, many Americans believe the Founding Fathers would roll over in their graves if they saw what ...