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Gilbert Stuart John Adams

Funny guy! The Week has a post about John Adams’s funniest insults. Apparently he was quite good at them. He’s been called “combative” and apparently even the “18th century Don Rickles”.

Here are some of his best – you can see the others over at The Week, link below:

1. ON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“His whole life has been one continued insult to good manners and to decency.”

2. ON THOMAS PAINE’S COMMON SENSE
“What a poor, ignorant, malicious, crapulous mass.”

3. ON GEORGE WASHINGTON
“That Washington is not a scholar is certain. That he is too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station is equally beyond dispute.”

The others are here: The Week.

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