WIST

ADAMS: This is a revolution, dammit! We’re going to have to offend SOMEbody!

Peter Stone (b. 1930) American writer
1776, with Sherman Edwards (play 1969)

ADAMS [praying to God in song]:
A little flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere,
Or a cataclysmic earthquake, I’d accept with some despair.
But no, you send us Congress! Good God, sir, was that fair?

Peter Stone (b. 1930) American writer
1776, with Sherman Edwards (play 1969)

HOPKINS: In all my years, I never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn’t be talked about.

Peter Stone (b. 1930) American writer
1776, with Sherman Edwards (play, 1969)