• How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!

    Abigail Adams: How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of
 so noble an undertaking!
    Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.50