some of my favourite insults written by our president, john adams
-“His whole life has been one continued insult to good manners and to decency.”
on benjamin franklin. letter to james warren, 1783
-“That bastard brat of a Scottish peddler!”
on alexander hamilton. letter to benjamin rush, january 25, 1806
-“What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army of fifty thousand Men, ten thousand of them to be Cavalry and his projects of sedition Laws and Alien Laws and of new taxes to support his army, all arose from a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off! and that the same vapours produced his Lyes and Slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his Life in the field of Honor.”
the infamous cum letter oh yes. on alexander hamilton. letter to benjamin rush, november 11, 1806
-“Phyladelphia with all its Trade, and Wealth, and Regularity is not Boston. The Morals of our People are much better, their Manners are more polite, and agreable—they are purer English. Our Language is better, our Persons are handsomer, our Spirit is greater, our Laws are wiser, our Religion is superiour, our Education is better. We exceed them in every Thing, but in a Markett, and in charitable public foundations.”
just bashing philadelphia in general
-“instead of being the ardent pursuer of science that some think him, I know he is indolent, and his soul is poisoned with Ambition”
on thomas jefferson. letter to abigail, december 26, 1793
-“I had the Anecdote of [Hamilton’s] threat to write a History of [Washington’s] Battles and Campaigns, from you, who had it from Miranda. I know nothing of the circumstances that lead to it. In general, I have always understood that Hamilton lived with Washington very much as Lady Teazle lived with Sir Peter, and as Lady Mary Wortley Montague lived with her Husband.”
on alexander hamilton. letter to benjamin rush, november 14, 1812
-“I have been told by Parson Montague of Dedham, though I will not vouch for the truth of it, that General Hamilton never wrote or spoke at the bar or elsewhere in public without a bit of opium in his mouth.”
on alexander hamilton. John Adams, The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
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