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John Adams: Jefferson, kindly introduce me to your wife. [pause] John Adams: She is your wife, isn't she? Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Of course she is. Look at the way they fit. Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Lee, Mr. Hopkins, Dr. Franklin, why have you joined this... incendiary little man, this BOSTON radical? This demagogue, this MADMAN? John Adams: Are you calling me a madman, you, you... you FRIBBLE! Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Easy John. John Adams: You cool, considerate men. You hang to the rear on every issue so that if we should go under, you'll still remain afloat! John Dickinson: Are you calling me a coward? John Adams: Yes... coward! John Dickinson: Madman! John Adams: Landlord! John Dickinson: LAWYER! [a brawl breaks out] I never asked for more. After all, I am Mrs. John Adams and that's quite enough for one lifetime. John Adams: Is it, Abby? Abigail: Well, think of it, John, to be married to the man who is always the first in line to be hanged! A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair. But no, You sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair? | |
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Please Mr. Dickinson, but must you start banging? How is a man to sleep? [laughter from Congress] John Dickinson: Forgive me, Dr. Franklin, but must YOU start speaking? How is a man to stay awake? [More laughter] John Dickinson: We'll promise to be quiet - I'm sure everyone prefers that you remained asleep. Dr. Benjamin Franklin: If I'm to hear myself called an Englishman, sir, I assure you I prefer I'd remained asleep. John Dickinson: What's so terrible about being called an Englishman? The English don't seem to mind. Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Nor would I, were I given the full rights of an Englishman. But to call me one without those rights is like calling an ox a bull. He's thankful for the honor, but he'd much rather have restored what's rightfully his. [laughter] John Dickinson: When did you first notice they were missing, sir? [laughter] [calling for a vote] Where's Rhode Island? McNair: Rhode Island's out visiting the necessary. Hancock: Well, after what Rhode Island has consumed, I can't say I'm surprised. We'll come back to him, Mr. Thompson. Thomson: Rhode Island passes. [Roar of laughter from the Congress] Well, in all my years I ain't never heard, seen nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yeah! I'm for debating anything. Rhode Island says yea! John Adams: Good God, you don't mean... they're not going to...? In the middle of the afternoon? Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Not everybody's from Boston, John! Oh John, you can dance! John Adams: We still do a few things in Boston, Franklin. I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God, I have had this Congress! For ten years, King George and his Parliament have gulled, cullied, and diddled these colonies with their illegal taxes! Stamp Acts, Townshend Acts, Sugar Acts, Tea Acts! And when we dared stand up like men, they have stopped our trade, seized our ships, blockaded our ports, burned our towns, and spilled our BLOOD! And still, this Congress refuses to grant ANY of my proposals on independence, even so much as the courtesty of open debate! Good God, what in hell are you waiting for? At a stage in life when other men prosper, I'm reduced to living in Philadelphia. What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen a great man before? [as John Hancock is about to swat a fly] Mr. Secretary, New York abstains, courteously. [Hancock raises his fly swatter at Morris, then draws back] John Hancock: Mr. Morris, [pause, then shouts] John Hancock: WHAT IN HELL GOES ON IN NEW YORK? Lewis Morris: I'm sorry Mr. President, but the simple fact is that our legislature has never sent us explicit instructions on anything! John Hancock: NEVER? [slams fly swatter onto his desk] John Hancock: That's impossible! Lewis Morris: Mr. President, have you ever been present at a meeting of the New York legislature? [Hancock shakes his head "No"] Lewis Morris: They speak very fast and very loud, and nobody listens to anybody else, with the result that nothing ever gets done. [turns to the Congress as he returns to his seat] Lewis Morris: I beg the Congress's pardon. John Hancock: [grimly] My sympathies, Mr. Morris. Well, Franklin, where's that idiot Lee? Is he back yet? I don't see him. Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Softly, John, your voice is hurting my foot. John Adams: One more day, Franklin. Then I shall propose to Congress. That strutting popinjay was so damn sure of himself. He's had time to come back with a dozen proposals by now! John Adams: You've had a whole week, man. Is it done? Can I SEE IT? [Jefferson indicates dozens of rejected drafts strewn crumpled about his floor] John Adams: Do you mean to say that it is NOT YET FINISHED? Thomas Jefferson: No sir. I mean to say that it is not yet begun. John Adams: Good GOD! A whole week! The entire earth was created in a week! [Jefferson turns to face him] Thomas Jefferson: Someday, you must tell me how you did it. John Adams: Disgusting. Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor. Mr. Hancock, you're a man of property, one of us. Why don't you join us in our minuet? Why do you persist on dancing with John Adams? Good Lord, sir, you don't even like him! Hancock: That is true, he annoys me quite a lot, but still I'd rather trot to Mr. Adams' new gavotte John Dickinson: But why? For personal glory, for a place in history? Be careful, sir, history will brand him and his followers as traitors. Hancock: Traitors, Mr. Dickinson? To what? The British crown, or the British half-crown? Fortunately there are not enough men of property in America to dictate policy John Dickinson: Perhaps not. But don't forget that most men without property would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich, than face the reality of being poor. Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers. John Adams: [scoffs] I have more to do than stand here and listen to you quote yourself. Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Oh, that was a new one! If any be opposed to the resolution on independence as proposed by the Colony of Virginia signify by saying... John Adams: Mr. President? Thomson: Oh, for heaven's sake, let me get through it once. Thomas Jefferson: Mr. Adams, I have not seen my wife these past six months! I beg of you, Mr. Adams... John Adams: [quotes from memory] 'And we solemly declare that we will preserve our liberties, being with one mind resolved to die free men rather than to live slaves.' Thomas Jefferson "On the Necessity of Taking Up Arms," 1775. Magnificent! Why, you write ten times better than any man in Congress. Including me. For a man of only thirty-three years, you have a happy talent of composition and a remarkable felicity of expression. Now then sir: will you be a patriot? Or a lover? Thomas Jefferson: A lover. God help us. Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Oh, he will, John. He will. Revolutions come into this world like bastard children, Mr. Dickinson - half improvised and half compromised. This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend SOMEbody! John Adams: This is positively indecent! Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Oh, John, they're young and they're in love. John Adams: Not them, Franklin. Us! Standing out here, waiting for them to... I mean, what will people think? Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Don't worry, John. The history books will clean it up. John Adams: It doesn't matter. I won't be in the history books anyway, only you. Franklin did this and Franklin did that and Franklin did some other damn thing. Franklin smote the ground and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them- Farnklin, Washington, and the horse- conducted the entire revolution by themselves. [pause] Dr. Benjamin Franklin: I like it. If we do not hang together, we shall most assuredly hang separately! | |
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