-- " Negligence of its regulations, inattention to its recommendations, if not disobedience to its authority, not only in individuals but in States, soon appeared with their melancholy consequences--universal languor, jealousies and rivalries of States, decline of navigation and commerce, discouragement of necessary manufactures, universal fall in the value of lands and their produce, contempt of public and private faith, loss of consideration and credit with foreign nations, and at length in discontents, animosities, combinations , partial conventions, and insurrection, threatening some great national calamity. " -- Excerpt of John Adams Inaugural Speech March 4. 1797
I do not often have too much to say about current affairs. This is not because I do not care, or I do not stay in touch with what is happening. But I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by the ridiculous actions, responses, and decisions of many politicians.
I was reading a book about John Adams and I read his Inaugural Speech. The excerpt I have included seemed to have a present day poignancy; it touch me, and I hope it can touch you.
