The most inadvertently prophetic words that Adams ever uttered were his last: Thomas Jefferson survives.
For it was the Jeffersonian image that broke free of the aggregated anonymity, the founders
or the fathers,
and eventually ascended into heaven with Washington. During the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Jeffersonian legacy became the most adaptable and all-purpose political touchstone in American political history.
Hart, Willliam
Old Saybrook, CT — Built in 1767 and restored to its original condition, it is Old Saybrook Historical Society’s museum and headquarters.
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (1993)