“The time is now at hand when we shall see whether America has virtue enough to be free or not.”
— Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795), from New Hampshire, was a U.S. Founding Father, first governor of the Granite State and a physician. The quote above was spoken in 1776, before the Declaration of Independence.
Josiah Bartlett House in Kingston, N.H., a National Historic Landmark, built in 1774
