*On July 3, 1776, John Adams said:
*
"It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still
more wasting and distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the
case, it will have this good effect, at least: it will inspire us with
many virtues, which we have not, and correct many errors, follies, and
vices, which threaten to disturb, dishonor, and destroy us. The furnace
of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
And the new governments we are assuming, in every part, will require a
purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues or there
will be no blessings....But I must submit all my hopes and fears to an
overruling Providence; in which, unfashionable as faith may be, I firmly
believe."
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