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Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers):
Opinions and Beliefs
Britain
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potential economic and political losses due to Amer. independence5
a nation on “Brink of Civil War”1
PJA08
Anglo-French naval and commercial rivalry1
PJA09
attitude toward war's outbreak1
PJA06
British policy keeps Dutch “in that State of Division, Sloth and Inactivity, from which they [the British] derive So much Plunder, with so much Safety”1
PJA11
constitution of1
PJA09
desire for peace by people in1
PJA10
effect of military successes on1
PJA09
“Either Absolute Monarchy, or a Republic”1
PJA09
English Civil War1
PJA09
future of Anglo-American relations1
PJA08
future status as a power1
PJA06
“Gangreene of Corruption” in1
PJA07
hubris of1
PJA11
impossibility of conquering U.S.1
PJA11
inevitable loss of colonies in North America1
PJA10
inhumanity of1
PJA11
insidious stockjobbers1
PJA11
isolation in Europe1
PJA06
like Attila: “The Scourge of God and the Plague of Mankind”1
PJA10
morale1
PJA08
on bringing the British to reason1
PJA08
on informing of mission to negotiate treaties with1
PJA08
past enforcement of navigation acts1
PJA09
political situation in England1
PJA07
power of1
PJA11
raids in U.S.1
PJA06
revenge as basis for policy of1
PJA07
ruined by war1
PJA11
spread of false rumors by ministry1
PJA09
“The English . . . dont love their Ennemies like good Christians, but they love to have Ennemies”1
PJA11
“The Quarrell with Holland is the most Serious Affair, that England has ever undertaken”1
PJA11
unwillingness to acknowledge Amer. independence by1
PJA09
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