John Adams on being a Vice President
John Adams, while serving as the Vice President:
"... My country has in its wisdom contrived
for me the most insignificant office
that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination
conceived. And as I can do neither good nor
evil, I must be borne away by others, and meet the
common fate. "
From The Life of John Adams by Charles Francis Adams, John Quincy Adams
"... My country has in its wisdom contrived
for me the most insignificant office
that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination
conceived. And as I can do neither good nor
evil, I must be borne away by others, and meet the
common fate. "
From The Life of John Adams by Charles Francis Adams, John Quincy Adams