• The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

    John Quincy Adams: The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored.  The interior working of the machinery must be foul.
    John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”