The way John Adams ends the first letter, I am sir your afflicted friend, John Adams. That line always brings me to tears.
@dogguy8603 Жыл бұрын
Well, up to this point, Jefferson and Adams hated eachother. When Jefferson ran against Adams it was and still is considered one the nastiest campaigns ever in American history. But, as the years went by, they never spoke to eachother, until finally, they were all that was left, the last 2 founding fathers, who lost their close family. Through these letters they rekindled their friendship until they died, on the same day July 4th 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence
@martinconnors62004 ай бұрын
I think of my maternal Grandparents during this segment. Sorry for my tears. I'm ever so sorry for this
@kevinzhang33134 жыл бұрын
Jefferson: "Why should we talk about politics, the only thing we disagree on, when we can agree on so many other things?"
@jtfairchild38383 жыл бұрын
Aye !
@jtfairchild38383 жыл бұрын
Many agreed that Providence handled and controlled all things ....and that He watched over those that humbly came to Him for protection , provision and the salvation of their souls now and for eternity because of the finished work of Christ.
@raspherion3 жыл бұрын
Because, even though men may disagree, it is one most speak. We need discussion and understanding, not discourse and division, yet it is the very nature of politics to make so. It is quite the paradox, is it not?
@Stonewall422 жыл бұрын
If these two old white powerful men to whom the consequences of politics are theoretical and impersonal can get along, why can't the rest of us?
@ThrillaWhale2 жыл бұрын
@@Stonewall42 Yeah, it’s not like they lives in the times they affected or anything.
@jeffreylombardo7825 жыл бұрын
There was never such a collection of great minds,at the right place,the right time under the right circumstances to ensure the birth of an old idea in a new world.
@30AndHatingIt4 жыл бұрын
Where did you get that quote?
@orlonarsino67294 жыл бұрын
Yeah correcr me if I'm wrong but a democracy and republic type governments were contenplated during the romans and even further back to the greeks right ?
@cnquistador4 жыл бұрын
@@orlonarsino6729 "...to ensure the birth of an old idea in a new world." He's not saying that America's founding fathers came up with the idea of Democracy/Republic, but that they created a new version of it which combined the lessons of the past with the ideas of the present (their present, at least).
@dalepeto96204 жыл бұрын
The greatest in world history??
@ZephLodwick3 жыл бұрын
@@dalepeto9620 I'd say there are several flaws in the US system. Elections are held in a first-past-the-post fashion, which has caused the creation of a two-party system. The president has very few direct checks on his power. He can have his veto overridden, but that takes a degree of bipartisan support that America doesn't have. I think the preferable system over both the American and British models is one where there is a president who is in charge of external policy and a PM chosen by parliament, who would gain most executive powers. This system would decrease the likelihood of a governmental shutdown--which is a common problem here in America.
@Robertz19869 жыл бұрын
It's worth noting they died on the same day... which happened to be the 50th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence... July 4th, 1826
@saudade21004 жыл бұрын
Perhaps also worth noting, on July 4, 1826, as both Adams and Jefferson died, each with the other in his thoughts, on that same day, Stephen Foster was born near Pittsburgh. Adams and Jefferson helped create America, and Stephen Foster wrote America's first songs.
@jamescurley95514 жыл бұрын
That’s what’s up
@ateram4 жыл бұрын
while John Quincy Adams was the president of the US
@IDBTitanosaurus4 жыл бұрын
J. Adams wanted to write to T. Jefferson on the 4th too. Thomas was telling his father, "You can write tomorrow."
@kevinzhang33134 жыл бұрын
God made a deal with Satan to make America...50 years later, it was time and he gave it back to the Devil.
@scotthimowitz84005 жыл бұрын
Genius to film Adams upside down walking through the cornfield. Shows how disruptive his life was after losing Abigail.
@John-Adams4 жыл бұрын
Nah, it was just filmed on location in Australia.
@JoshuaMNielsen4 жыл бұрын
@@John-Adams Where corn falls into the sky?
@joliecide3 жыл бұрын
On another note, Monticello looks glorious.
@aussiegod42693 жыл бұрын
@@John-Adams salty but fine
@jacobjones52693 жыл бұрын
And that in almost 50 years, the world they knew had been turned upside down... As ours will be 50 years from now..
@johncostello55333 жыл бұрын
"Your friend, Thomas Jefferson." True friendship never dies.
@colinbagel8603 жыл бұрын
It’s hard to find true friends
@Jack4nd13 жыл бұрын
"It is of some comfort to us both that the term is not very distant that which we are to deposit our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend to an ecstatic meeting with friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall still love and never lose again." The use of the english language in this scene has always moved me.
@JB-gw7xf3 жыл бұрын
Jefferson had a lot of flaws, but you can never say he wasn't a gifted writer.
@ryanthrasher27192 жыл бұрын
I know! I am in tears every time I see, hear, and experience that moment.
@inigobantok1579 Жыл бұрын
These Americans were in essence British and a lord from Bristol remarked during his visit to the colonies that Americans speak better than their own subjects in Britain
@abehambino Жыл бұрын
That line is made all the more deeper when you know that both men departed this world together, on the same day, neither knowing the other was departing, and on the 50th anniversary of the nation of which they dedicated their entire lives to creating and preserving.
@anthonycunningham8116 Жыл бұрын
@@inigobantok1579 Ro be fair, he was from Bristol. What they know about speaking coherent English could be written on the back of a postage stamp
@prussiansunsets16 жыл бұрын
"Your Friend, Thomas Jefferson." Gets me every time. What an incredible production.
@shiralboone579210 жыл бұрын
The letters between friends Thomas Jefferson and John Adams . These two men died on July 4th the same day ... of the same year.. Amazing men of faith and foresight.
@god93645 жыл бұрын
exactly 50 years after independence
@Robertz19864 жыл бұрын
50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which Adams did more than anyone to ensure passed, and which Jefferson actually wrote.
@BCsouperfan21244 жыл бұрын
I love the way JQA’s wife says “Thomas Jefferson” at the end. It’s like she can’t believe her elderly father knows Jefferson, let alone was President himself
@nathangonzalez97103 жыл бұрын
They (Adams and Jefferson) were intence political enemies, I took it as shock that they were writing so kindly.
@lucassimmons34963 жыл бұрын
@@nathangonzalez9710 their politics aside they were best friends prior to Adams presidency. There’s a letter from much earlier where Jefferson thanks the adams for traveling to help him raise his children for a short period after his wife died
@nathangonzalez97103 жыл бұрын
@@lucassimmons3496 I knew that. I ment the daughter in law reaction.
@jeremyrossi27163 жыл бұрын
After politics in their eldest years they became good friends again. Even as political adversaries, they disliked members of their own parties (Hamilton and Burr) before they disliked each other.
@mikkye25713 жыл бұрын
@@nathangonzalez9710 thanks for this I was Choi g speak the facts but you already did lol
@Jubes12315 жыл бұрын
"Well, posterity, you will never know what it cost us to preserve your freedom. I only hope that you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it." -John Adams
@aarfeld6 жыл бұрын
I think that whay he is trying to do is speak with a slight lilt of a Scottish accent. By all accounts of those who knew him this is how Jefferson spoke, which he absorbed firstly from his mother, who was Scottish born, and secondly by his earliest schoolmaster, also a Scot.
@ZephLodwick3 жыл бұрын
@@aarfeld I thought it was interesting how the series handled the accents of the characters. We don't know what the accent of colonial America was like. We know they spoke with a distinct accent, and we know that New Englanders spoke differently from other Americans, but we don't know exactly what they sounded like. The creators of the series side-stepped the issue by giving characters all sorts of accents. Thomas is Irish, John's is a pretty standard east North American, John Quincy is from the south of England.
@gorgefood98673 жыл бұрын
He's repenting now. Government keeps getting bigger and our number of rights keep getting feweer.
@htf55552 жыл бұрын
doesnt matter. their statues are torn down and the founding myth is replaced with, whatever it is they're replacing it with
@CustodianVirgil4 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure why, but this ending reminds me a lot of Lord of The Rings. Bittersweet.
@cumpanions81053 жыл бұрын
the cornfield and walking stick looks so lotr
@haraldisdead3 жыл бұрын
Maybe cuz it's exactly like lord of the rings?
@emw19942 жыл бұрын
It's about the parting of friends. That's always sad.
@DJCoolK1d2 жыл бұрын
“One more step & I’ll be the furthest away from Massachusetts I’ve ever been.”
@Zomfoo2 жыл бұрын
Adams was rather hobbit-like (one of the Sackville Bagginses). Nevertheless, if this were like Jackson’s atrocious adaptation, it would have had five endings.
@mr0-fukspoliticallyincorre2472 жыл бұрын
I miss this way of eloquence when even conversations were poetic
@benny569 Жыл бұрын
“but you and i are not to die before we’ve explained ourselves to each other…” i don’t have anything politically inclined to say, but all i know is that their friendship was beautiful. flawed, revolutionary, bountiful, but enlightening and thought provoking. i would love to have a friend like that.
@Rensune Жыл бұрын
So close that they even died on the same day, of old age.
@Gravelgratious2 жыл бұрын
This series made me not worry about growing old and drifting away. We are all fated to live and die best to love one another than hate. Life is too short to hold by the collar. You must let life run as it wishes.
@Xykaru Жыл бұрын
Great pic/name.
@EtzEchad7 ай бұрын
I'm so glad that these two men wrote so many letters to each other at the end. It was a great condensation of their history.
@joelbeske15049 ай бұрын
Two of the most important individuals this country has ever produced.
@acdragonrider5 ай бұрын
and yet society and political correctness addicts hate them so much
@divisioneight7 жыл бұрын
There's a lesson to be learned in these two men, completely different in all political aspects and opinions, yet dear friends and forever bonded with respect. We ought to learn from these two gentlemen and take from them their lesson to us to get along, not belittle and hate one another, call each other names and take to the streets to battle one another, all over a simple difference in political opinion.
@macree016 жыл бұрын
Jefferson and Adams reconciled a long time before each others deaths. They started writing each other almost immediatley after Jefferson left office.
@herondelatorre17375 жыл бұрын
DivisionEight : Your suggestion is a good one. However, these days the political parties in the US are so far apart and are in the extreme political spectrum that even trying to extend a hand of friendship from one side to the other would now be considered as treason or heresy. One can only hope that one day personal friendships from political people like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will return civility to the United States.
@steed39024 жыл бұрын
@@herondelatorre1737 Justices Scalia and GBG were famous friends!
@countravid37684 жыл бұрын
We judge ourselves on the extremes in which few hold that belfie and never let go to that idea of animosity. Never recognizing the commonality of our foes and purpose of the state to be of the people and for the people, for when we cease to respect our adversaries, we cease being respectable people. Let us find joy in the things in which we share, whether it be nationality or our pursuit of liberty, life and happiness.
@kevinzhang33134 жыл бұрын
You're not really making that point with Adams and Jefferson considering how long they had drifted apart and reunited when they were elderly.
@paulwagner6885 жыл бұрын
Truly Adams was the firebrand of the revolution. Little Massachusetts dragged the rest of the country to its independence.
@tromboneman45173 жыл бұрын
And thank God for it!!!
@joliecide3 жыл бұрын
Yet the show suggests he was absent from the revolution itself, having been away to Europe for most of the war. Agree though, he was instrumental in the declaration.
@paulwagner6883 жыл бұрын
@@joliecide True. But without him there wouldn't have been a revolution.
@dogguy8603 Жыл бұрын
@@joliecidenot only that but his personal morals of that eveyone deserves a fair trial led to him defending the soldiers involved in the Boston massacre
@HistoryNerd87652 жыл бұрын
Just because we disagree with our fellow citizens doesn't mean we can't live them at the same time. Democrat or Republican, we're all on the same team: America.
@cranky1chick14 жыл бұрын
What has been published of the Adams-Jefferson correspondence is excellent to read. I'm glad the series paid homage to their great rivalry/friendship and showed the mellowing of both as their correspondence grew later in life.
@allies71844 жыл бұрын
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the same day. One in Virginia and the other one in Massachusetts; when they went to heaven that must have been some reunion.
@martinconnors62004 ай бұрын
I'm still afflicted by the intense pain, of my Maternal Grandfather's and then Maternal Grandmother's deaths (both lost to the lethal pandemic in late January 2021). I still cry because they were an enormous part of my life. Due to strict guidelines; I was prohibited from seeing my dear Grandparents (for the very last time).
@tbwpiper1892 жыл бұрын
They wrote so eloquently in those days in beautiful sentiment.
@LittleDesertFlower789 жыл бұрын
I jst adore their correspondence.. And those two men.. And this whole, incredibly well-produced, HBO series in general. -- Love love love it!!!
@bbaker41172 жыл бұрын
None of the boot-lickers in Washington, democrat or republican, are worthy of these men's legacy.
@mchanson933211 ай бұрын
This is hilarious given how savagely they insulted each other when running for office
@acdragonrider5 ай бұрын
It’s highly reminiscent of how the best friends behave. So often friends fight fiercely
@mafaldarox13 жыл бұрын
"...and to ascend to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost and whom we shall still love and never lose again."
@wcottee4 жыл бұрын
Amen
@davecrupel28174 жыл бұрын
All i can think of are my grandparrents 😞😢😭
@dalepeto96204 жыл бұрын
Astute words, beautiful words, kind words, and healing words.
@artygunnar4 жыл бұрын
yeah, these people wrote the constitution and declaration of independence, what would you find today? "Ummm, like, sooo, we's gottsa to make a county, what's the word? country! oh, we's gottsa to make a country (wow, big word) so can we can be not under control of someone"
@jeffnaslund2 жыл бұрын
It’s a nice thought, but won’t happen
@prussiansunsets15 жыл бұрын
"Your friend, Thomas Jefferson."
@sawzaw20314 жыл бұрын
What a tremendous exchange of words between to people! It's unfortunate how nobody speaks like that anymore or acts towards each other in such a manner. Thanks for the posting!! 5 Stars all day!!
@AnthroGuitarist Жыл бұрын
Wow!! Back when KZbin had stars and not likes!!!!
@scottjohnson7450 Жыл бұрын
Greg Giraldo did an absolutely brilliant bit about this exact topic. Granted, it was about letters from soldiers in the Civil War, but nonetheless the way these men spoke to each other was almost poetic. Nowadays - like the comedian Louis C.K. said - words almost ooze out of our faces, we're so linguistically lazy!
@garrett198716 жыл бұрын
my absolute favorite scene in the whole series.
@benderthepirate2 жыл бұрын
This is one of the greatest scenes in movies and shows. So heartwarming and beautiful. Especially considering the evolution of their relationship. They went from colleagues, to friends, to best friends, to sworn enemies, to best friends again. We can learn a lot from these two. Giamatti’s and Dillane’s readings of their actual letters was also spectacular. I’m having trouble just putting into words just how amazing this scene is. It’s simply gorgeous.
@CMichael2276 Жыл бұрын
What a lovable cantankerous man he was. A true patriot.
@LeathanL Жыл бұрын
One of the better series I've ever watched on "cable" at the time. I miss art like this. So tired of the idiotic "superhero" stuff that passes for entertainment now.
@kenrudd63629 ай бұрын
this is HBO's best show by far
@hallmichael35 Жыл бұрын
“My dear friend” gets me every time.
@AquaAtia2 жыл бұрын
The correspondence between these two are some of the greatest between two individuals in American history. Jefferson and Adams are the faces of political rivalry and differences within America and yet at the end of the day, they could reconcile. Perhaps it’s naive of me to think we could all take a page out of these two’s books.
@morganhale34342 жыл бұрын
The promise of America is encompassed by the reconciliation of Adams and Jefferson. It's heart warming that two bitter enemies could beat their swords into ploughshares.
@sqseq1237 Жыл бұрын
Jefferson says, time and silence are the only medicines. In fact, when Charles Adams died of alcoholism in 1800, Thomas Boylston Adams said, “Let silence reign over his tomb.” He really did have such a great sense of imagery, like his family.
@rosanawan14 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite scene of the whole John Adams miniseries. Both men came together and put behind their differences to share their interest the future of the new nation.
@kaixiang5390 Жыл бұрын
watching this again I've noticed jefferson's writing tool is meant to produce two letters: one to send and one to keep so you know what you wrote haha
@martinconnors6200Ай бұрын
I still cry, because I miss my Maternal Grandparents so much. They died in Late January 2021; but seems like their death's; only occurred yesterday or last week. I still wear a broken 💔
@PaperGrape2 жыл бұрын
This series ought to be homework for the upcoming generations.
@morbius1098 жыл бұрын
The men who were our Founders - Washington, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, and on and on - were remarkable and gifted gentlemen, successful and educated and driven. What this land might have been had we not had their enlightened guidance in the birth of the USA....
@IronMan-tk8uc7 жыл бұрын
As a black Brazilian, I always admired for what the United States stood for (not a perfect country, since it's supported many atrocities around the world and prologation of slavery well into the 19th century), BUT, it is a great nation, especially your Founding Fathers - truly gifted men, indeed. It looks like they were to be born in that specific period of time to establish the United States of America!
@morbius1097 жыл бұрын
Michael Nascimento I agree. Their sole destiny in life was to be there to play the role they did in this nations founding. I hope we can restore some of the purity of their legacy some day.
@IronMan-tk8uc7 жыл бұрын
morbius109 I really look forward to that. Even though I never stepped on American soil, but I consider the U.S my secound country.
@incomemobile85667 жыл бұрын
Michael Nascimento Delighted to hear this comment. Trust me you are more of an American Patriot than most Americans. these days. Today being an American is to be a communist big govt loving entitlement slave. America is now just an ideal. It's not even taught in the govt schools over here.
@captainnerd64524 жыл бұрын
IronMan93 America is an idea, a belief, an ideal that hasn’t always been lived up to, but to which men and women like the founders strove hard to live up to, and which has been the goal of most Americans to live by. I believe that there are a lot of Americans in the world who have never set foot here, but who have embraced “Americanness” and as such would be welcome here, by most people at least.
@ThrillaWhale12 жыл бұрын
Aw man....that was just too beautiful
@mev18616 жыл бұрын
Thanks, surprisingly enough, It was difficult to decide where to end the scene because the entire series flows so well.
@treyb3873 жыл бұрын
When Benjamin Rush calls John Adams and Thomas Jefferson the North and South Poles of the American Revolution it really tells you just how incredibly devoted those two men were to the cause of revolution, despite their later disagreements on the constitution or even how strong the federal government was to be.
@arthurlandrycf14 жыл бұрын
this is one of the most well done scenes i have ever seen on TV or the movies- no action- but so deep- amazing
@OfficialAshArcher3 жыл бұрын
A true friendship - one that rises above differences in beliefs and is built on respect and a shared journey.
@captainamerica6525 Жыл бұрын
Our Founding Fathers...in the twilight of their years. Rest in peace honored sirs.
@minimannik2 жыл бұрын
They'd roll in their graves if they saw the America of today.
@johnfahrer503821 күн бұрын
Wish this video would’ve included Adams’ saying “this boy here has made me the proudest father in America” as well as the toast where he didn’t like being reminded of being old
@ke11yke11z2 жыл бұрын
A bromance to last the centuries
@twincity60793 жыл бұрын
I like how they have each other busts of each other’s faces.
@johnmassoud9302 жыл бұрын
Can't watch this or the death of Abigail without tearing up. Amazing miniseries
@martinconnors519510 ай бұрын
I cannot stop crying when I see and hear this clip. Makes me think of my Maternal grandparents 😢😢😢. Both lost to the deadly Coronavirus pandemic a week apart (in Late January 2021). I still miss them terribly, and I cry almost every day.
@AB-qr8ln3 жыл бұрын
From colleges to friends to bitter rivals/enemies, and then in there final years best friends. and then they passed away on the same day
@prussiansunsets16 жыл бұрын
One of the very best scenes. Thank you very much.
@OneofInfinity.2 жыл бұрын
Great friendship goals for any one searching.
@xhagast4 жыл бұрын
I have read the letters exchanged by gentlemen of the time before engaging on a duel and I was astonished at the politeness and gentleness. Maybe face to face they were less polite but if not I would have found it difficult to fight to the death somebody so polite and outright nice. We are a strange species.
@rg314044 жыл бұрын
The nature of their relationship does give pause to consider whether the heat of disagreement that can burn our relationships really does need to burn so hot.
@jennifersaar16113 жыл бұрын
I think that the higher the stakes, the hotter the burn. Jefferson and Adams had such different ideas about how the country should be governed. America was still so young, so fragile - I’d imagine at the time it was rather like keeping a top spinning, and the founding fathers were all too aware of the consequences of letting it fall. Adams believed in a strongly centralized government. Jefferson...not so much. The gossip rags of the time didn’t help matters, and neither did the backstabbing and infighting in Adams’s cabinet.
@mechanomics264910 ай бұрын
@@jennifersaar1611 Finally, someone in this comments section with a fucking brain.
@NotTheWheel3 жыл бұрын
Remember these two as friends, the basis of our political parties stems from them, but in their end days, they could reconcile as friends. Remember it was that George Washington himself was wary of the division Political Parties could cause, but he was as always the one to lead ahead, Adams and Jefferson to follow that perhaps in their age could catch the wisdom of their commander and chief from so long ago.
@tylero8595 Жыл бұрын
The makeup and costumes are excellent.
@matthewhedrichjr.54452 жыл бұрын
How heartwarming and sad a scene can be.
@carlosgale67773 жыл бұрын
And @ 3:47 a Time Traveler mistakenly passed in front of Adam's home in a 12V Vespa GTS Super Sport
@JoeKerr4202 жыл бұрын
3:13 Jefferson kept the bust of Adams. Says alot how he thought of him even with their differences
@DragonNo1 Жыл бұрын
A lot has been lost over time. We used to write better and with deeper respect to our readers. Nowadays you only have to see how most of comments in any language resort to emojis to ensure that we don't take too seriously what we want to convey, or simply embrace chicanery for the sake to destroy our opponents. Living faster lives have made us more stupid. This isn't an age of reflection; this is why we're stagnant as a culture.
@mechanomics264910 ай бұрын
Speak for yourself. There's nothing stagnant about culture at large. Also, people were saying the exact thing you're saying back then too.
@DragonNo110 ай бұрын
@@mechanomics2649 Back then when? Yesterday? A month ago? Replacing statements with chicanery, clicks and emojis is a prove of originality of thought? If you disapprove my statement bring something better to think about. No doubt I speak for myself. Who else do you speak for? Or it's just chicanery?
@silverbeernuts42292 жыл бұрын
I don't know. This HBO show and its original writer, D. McCullough, did an absolute amazing job and a testament to our fore fathers and to the relationship between Adams and Jefferson through their letters. I am sure every one of us who follow this show must think why our leaders today act and behave as civil as to the past leadership? As our society today is totally controlled by corporations, media and the rich to the point where todays "democracy" is just a pretend word and the rich corrupt capitalist are the real government in power.
@donfisher80352 жыл бұрын
Never buy the idea, which dates are indeed, accurate, that it was coincidence, both died, July 4th. Mysterious are the ways of Providence, to which we mortals understand
@Baseballisbest674 жыл бұрын
Amen! So well said
@dainn0669 ай бұрын
Such is life in an Age of Enlightenment and modernity,respect shall be forever
@LtScarecrow874 жыл бұрын
I really wish that cameras were present during Adams life. Imagine all those of the first Continental Congress who signed in our freedom, weather they were present or not one day and showed up another due to the war. And then took a group photo to commemorate that moment. It would have been as glorious as the Signing wall mural, if not more so.
@Nebulasecura3 жыл бұрын
The first photograph was taken a month before these men died I believe. Sadly it was in France though
@TeamBlizzFM2 жыл бұрын
😥they loved each other!
@synnr66615 жыл бұрын
I agree with you both and merely stating so. I will add nothing else, but my affirmation, and in that, nothing more can be said.
@thedukeofswellington1827 Жыл бұрын
My dad was a widower for 10 years...he and my mom were married for 38 years. Heartbreaking...😢
@timheavrin2253 Жыл бұрын
If only we in 2022 America would only learn from these 2 men & their example.
@J.B244 жыл бұрын
These are what you call letters.
@sly89264 жыл бұрын
JB24 no kidding. Jefferson’s initial response to Adams is, for my money, the finest piece of American writing. What beauty he could paint with words!
@CitizenAyellowblue4 жыл бұрын
It was a time when communication was more of a luxury than it is now. Letters had to “count” so people put a great deal of effort into their writing. In my childhood, my grandfather used to write to me from another country, and his letters were much like these- well composed pieces of prose.
@thatsalittlebassist3 жыл бұрын
@@CitizenAyellowblue I wish we still talked and wrote like this. Much more proper.
@mechanomics264910 ай бұрын
@@thatsalittlebassist Yeah and people were saying the same thing back then too. It's just old man yells at cloud nonsense. If you want to talk that way, be the change you want to see in the world. You won't.
Жыл бұрын
One of the best movie ever
@kevinzhang33134 жыл бұрын
This kind of love for their home is gone from the atmosphere in America... Let's bring it back while moving forward. What makes us different(In our potential) is not WHAT opinion we have but how we handle the DIFFERENCE in opinion. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 How many countries have been split apart because that was never even a possibility for them? Every citizen needs to put themselves out there to make this country a better place and to enact progress, as they perceive it. That's the spirit of America. Be honestly for and honestly against others as much as you can honestly tolerate. And it's no cakewalk. What's the true spirit of America? If you truly believe you have it, then you should not need to have anyone tell you what it is.
@romancandle4163 жыл бұрын
Greatest American broship.
@mgwilliams100013 жыл бұрын
The use of language in their speech and writings was so profound and powerful. Today it is a simple text that really makes no sense when you read it.... not to mention the free use of profanity. Their writings and their letters almost seem to be a lost part of our exsistence today.....sigh.....
@ferrer654 жыл бұрын
I think we can elevate our speech again. People just need to wean themselves off of social media and read books again. Even watching tv is said to dull your brain. Few people do anything mentally stimulating anymore.
@djohnson24994 жыл бұрын
For the profanity you had to read Franklin's writings. They were full of them
@dalepeto96204 жыл бұрын
Forty yrs. ago they said "no one writes to each other anymore, how terrible. " Now people text all the time.
@bombkita4 жыл бұрын
ferrer65 reading books won’t make a person use more sophisticated words. We could easily talk as they do. It’s just considered obviously weird to do in a normal conversation or most any at all.
@kevinzhang33134 жыл бұрын
@@ferrer65 You can't look into the past. You have to move forward using where you are now as a reference, not by the admirable past.
@geminiwriter887511 ай бұрын
Just noticed that they have busts of each other - also, not as expiring old but aspiring young.
@paulmiller66472 жыл бұрын
Amen
@PakRoc-dev2 жыл бұрын
This is why men involved in politics should retire well before their terminal years.
@trevor4622 жыл бұрын
The way we were.
@trevor4629 ай бұрын
And never will be again, alas.
@rickyray27942 жыл бұрын
John Adams rasied John Quincy Adams... nuff said.
@Rascal_Prime5 ай бұрын
1:17 I need to hear these words sometimes. Most of all today, so I'll put this here so I don't have to keep looking for them.
@theoceansandbox27122 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, this scene shows Thomas Jefferson writing with his left hand. He was in fact ambidexterous
@mev18615 жыл бұрын
Part 7-Peacefield:)
@Illmatic6714 жыл бұрын
Is it fair to say that Thomas Jefferson may have been the closest person we have had in America to da Vinci?
@Robertz19864 жыл бұрын
No, that would be Benjamin Franklin, though he is close.
@drewhendley3 жыл бұрын
@@Robertz1986 Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance man and Thomas Jefferson was Americas first Renaissance man. There is the correlation between the two
@jacobjones52693 жыл бұрын
Yes, Franklin was Da Vinci... Thomas was Thomas..
@jec1ny2 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Theodore Roosevelt.
@jmpwfnfhbo12 жыл бұрын
@jman12725 I agree, although when Adams was president and Jefferson was his vice, their friendship really kinda tore apart. They hardly ever spoke or did anything. And they both died on the exact same day, exactly fifty years after the Declaration of Independence was ratified.
@huybonga39532 жыл бұрын
26/7 21h30
@tala.avraham82659 ай бұрын
and now .. sail to the undying lands Bilbo , farewell old friend
@taylorahern37552 жыл бұрын
For those of you who doubt a divine influence in the early inception & formation of our union chiefly by chalking it up to mere chance along with the winds of unforeseen destiny than I strongly encourage you to read about the intimate relations, dynamics & personal history that took place between these two luminous giants, as so much of their respective careers were intertwined, all while taking into consideration that they both passed on on the very same day of days that each was powerfully instrumental in bringing about & immortalizing, on its 50th anniversary, incredibly enough. Point is there are no coincidences. There is something behind it all, a higher, more ethereal & infinitely wise guiding hand, one of celestial dimensions yet spiritual grace. For how could there not be? God knew exactly what he was doing when he guided America to its creation, imperfect as it was at the beginning (& still is). Though man was born imperfect, & the soil of our nation at its birth was rich & fertile, healthy & productive. Much was meant to grow from it, as nothing that was ill suited to Democratic ideals & personal freedoms was designed to remain permanent or inflexible, only that which was devised to support & secure them. Those two had a major, unseen yet omniscient helping hand, & at the very least they suspected it. Felt it deep down, in their respective hearts, all their natural greatness & brilliance that each developed on his own notwithstanding. Bound by destiny, by divine fate, by that which knew & preordained it all. There are no coincidences.
@mechanomics264910 ай бұрын
Sure buddy
@adrianhildebrandt3937 Жыл бұрын
First WhatsApp Conversation in the Americas
@lilchromozome4 ай бұрын
Political enemies turned friends in the end. If only that could be the case for today's politics.
@iLY0X815 жыл бұрын
if anyone wants to upload anything, could someone please upload the miniseries?
@dixitmk Жыл бұрын
“My dear wife of 54 years has been taken away from me”
@Kane937816 жыл бұрын
is the scene where John meets the king anywhere?
@porsche911sbs4 жыл бұрын
not on KZbin, check DailyMotion or Vimeo
@wcottee4 жыл бұрын
OK, let's face it. No one writes like this today. We have people speaking with "so" and "like" every other word. The tweets have "your" instead of "you're" and "there" instead of "their" as well as other things. What has happened?
@kurtjk014 жыл бұрын
The Frankfurt School has done it's damage, as well as the Stalinists of the 50s. Either time for the Silent Majority to have its will known, or to water the Tree of LIberty. We shall see.