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Masquerade

Curve-billed Thrasher, Alamogordo NM, November 12, 2011

"My friend! Our country is a masquerade!" John Adams

My friend! Our country is a masquerade! No party, no man dares to avow his real sentiments. All is disguise, vizard, cloak.

John Adams, 1805, in a letter to Benjamin Rush

clipped December 20, 2004

Collection: American History - Politics and World Affairs