What would Adams think now?

“The Father and Mother,’’ by Boardman Robinson (1867-1952), depicting war as the offspring of greed and pride.

"There is so much rascality, so much venality and corruption, so much avarice and ambition such a rage for profit and commerce among all ranks and degrees of men even in America, that I sometimes doubt whether there is public virtue enough to support a republic."

Founding Father John Adams (1735-1826), in a 1776 letter to Mercy Otis Warren