The Hancock Cemetery, in Quincy, Mass., where President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, and their son President John Quincy Adams and his wife, Louisa, are buried.
“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
—From letter of Abigail Adams (1744-1818), wife of Founding Father John Adams (1735-1826), to her son John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), like his father a president.
