• My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

    John Quincy Adams: My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
    John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”