Look to Adams, Jefferson as guides

It’s another election year and I wish the candidates would be more like John Adams, our second president, who wrote: “I never swerved from any principle … to obtain a vote. I never sacrificed a friend or betrayed a trust. I never hired scribblers to defame my rivals. I never wrote a line of slander against my bitterest enemy nor encouraged it in any other.”

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826 – the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence Jefferson authored it and Adams was its spokesman.

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