Sunday, May 24, 2009

and out sprang General Washington

The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electric rod smote the Earth and out sprang General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod and thence forward these two conducted all the Policy, Negotiations, Legislatures and War.


John Adams as quoted in Founding brothers: the revolutionary generation by Joseph J. Ellis. Vintage Books, 2000. p.167

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