Abigail Adams

 
John Adams became the first president to sleep in the White House,  November 1. 1800.

Adams means well for his country, is always an honest man, often a wise one, but sometimes, and in some things, absolutely out of his senses.
Benjamin Franklin 1783

Every measure of prudence,
 therefore, ought to be assumed
 for the eventual total extirpation
 of slavery from the United
 States.... I have, throughout my
 whole life, held the practice of
 slavery in... abhorrence.
 John Adams, in a letter 1819

 There is no good government
 but what is republican. That the
 only valuable part of the British
 constitution is so; for the true
 idea of a republic is "an empire
 of laws, and not of men." That,
 as a republic is the best of
 governments, so that particular
 arrangement of the powers of
 society, or in other words, that
 form of government which is
 best contrived to secure an
 impartial and exact execution of
 the law, is the best of republics.
 John Adams, 1776