The collected part of the semen, raised and enflamed became a Lust converted to choler turned head upon the spinal duct, and ascended to the brain. The very same principle that influences a bully to break the windows of a whore that has jilted him, naturally stirrs up a great Prince to raise mighty armies, and dream of nothing but sieges, battles and victories. In this place I cannot avoid introducing a reflection by way of transgression. What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising fifty thousand Men, ten thousand of them to be Calvary and his projects of sedition Laws and Alien Laws and of new taxes to support his army all arose from a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off! and that the same vapours produced his Lyes and Slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his Life in the field of Honor.
John Adams to Doctor Benjamin Rush, Nov. 11 1806, in which he chalks up Hamilton’s problems to simply not getting laid enough. (via publius-reporter)
Adams what is your problem.
(via foundingfatherfest)
Oh John Adams. You amuse me so. (Everyone needed to get laid more. Did none of you learn from Franklin’s example?)