Quote of John Adams from "The Noble Fury of Samuel Adams", Smithsonian October 2022, pg. 37, "With a vigorous dash of color John Adams much later described the scene. His cousin was no orator. On great occasions, however, "when his deeper feelings were excited, he erected himself, or rather nature seemed to erect him, without the smallest symptom of affectation, ....... The more lasting for the purity, correctness and nervous elegance of his style." For one thing the word "nervous" blows the "without the smallest symptom of affectation" out of the water which seems to be three legs of the compliment but that's not my argument. It's a frigid Boston morning slap in the face to the unprivileged and what has Samuel's somber indifference gotten us anyway? If all things were equal, I'd consider it thoughtfully. But Samuel grew up privileged and had a lot of fun spending his money made at the unprivileged’s expense and...