"While you live, I seem to have a bank at Monticello on which I can draw for a letter of friendship and entertainment when I please.
I know not how to prove physically that we shall meet and know each other in a future state, nor does revelation, as I can find give us any positive assurance of such a felicity. My reasons for believing it, as I do, most undoubtingly are all moral and divine."
- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Dec. 8, 1818
they both died on this date, in 1826
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